Scientific Name

Ropalidia ornaticeps (Cameron, 1900)

Taxonomic Placement

Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Polistinae: Ropalidiini: Ropalidia

Synonyms/Original combination

Icaria ornaticeps Cameron, 1900: 496.
Ropalidia flavopicta ornaticeps; van der Vecht, 1962: 49.
Ropalidia ornaticeps; Yoshikawa et al. 1969: 167.

Brief diagnosis

Female: 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 black with extensive yellow markings.

Images

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

Distribution

India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tripura.
Elsewhere: Bhutan; Cambodia; China; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam.

Distribution within India

References

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