Scientific Name

Ropalidia jacobsoni (du Buysson, 1908)

Taxonomic Placement

Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Polistinae: Ropalidiini: Ropalidia

Synonyms/Original combination

Icaria jacobsoni du Buysson, 1908: 123.
Ropalidia jacobsoni jacobsoni; Das and Gupta, 1984: 418.
Ropalidia jacobsoni flavoscutellata Das and Gupta, 1989: 146, 147, 160, 171.
Ropalidia bangalorica Lambert and Narendran, 2005a: 1920.

Brief diagnosis

Female: Pronotal carina strongly sinuate backward at humeral angle. Pretegular carina absent. Mesepisternum without scrobal sulcus. Forewing with 3 submarginal cells. Basal angle of second submarginal cell lager than 90°. Hindwing with jugal lobe. Median furrow of propodeum distinct. Propodeal valvula large, semicircular covering most part of the propodeal teeth. Propodeal orifice round. Metasoma basally petiolate. Colour: Body brownish red with yellow markings.

Images

Adult- dorsal view
Adult- lateral view

Distribution

India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.
Elsewhere: Bhutan; Indonesia; Myanmar.

Distribution within India

References

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