Scientific Name

Ropalidia montana Carl, 1934

Taxonomic Placement

Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Polistinae: Ropalidiini: Ropalidia

Synonyms/Original combination

Icaria montana Carl, 1930: 22.

Brief diagnosis

Female: Head and mesosoma shiny. Ventral corner of pronotum gradually narrowed ventrally. Pretegular carina absent. Mesepisternum without scrobal sulcus. Punctured posterolateral area and unpunctured anteroventral area of mesepisternum indistinct. Forewing with 3 submarginal cells. Basal angle of second submarginal cell lager than 90°. Hindwing with jugal lobe. Propodeal valvula small hardly covering propodeal teeth. Propodeal orifice round. Metasoma basally petiolate. S1 with posterior margin deeply emarginate medially. Colour: Body dark brown with yellow markings.

Images

Adult- dorsal view
Adult- lateral view
Adult- frontal view

Distribution

India: Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu.

Distribution within India

References

  • Das, B.P. & Gupta, V.K. (1989) The social wasps of India and the adjacent countries. Oriental Insects Monograph, 11, 1–292.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.1989.11835532
  • Girish Kumar, P., Sureshan, P.M. & Manju, P. (2017a) Additions to the knowledge on the paper wasp genus Ropalidia Guérin- Méneville (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae: Ropalidini) from India. Spare Nature, 6–17.
  • Kojima, J.I., Lambert, K., Nguyen, L.T.P. & Saito, F. (2007) Taxonomic notes on the paper wasps of the genus Ropalidia in the Indian subcontinent (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Entomological science, 10(4), 373–393.
    10.1111/j.1479-8298.2007.00237.x