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Species Ropalidia romandi (Le Guillou, 1841)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Possibly the NSW specimens are strays, but common in QLD.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nests of 'paper'.

 

General References

Carpenter, J.M. & Brown, G.R. 2022. Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214(4): 451–495

Kojima, J. 1987. Descriptions of mature larvae of eight Australian Polistinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 26(2): 141-148 [Date published 29/05/1987] [146] (larval description and illustrations as Ropalidia romandi cabeti)

Kojima, J. 1993. Violent behaviour by workers in an Old World swarm-founding paper wasp, Ropalidia romandi (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Japanese Journal of Entomology 61(4): 835-838 [Date published 25/12/1993] (behaviour)

Kojima, J. 1994. Evidence for an alarm pheromone in Ropalidia romandi (Le Guillou) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 33(1): 45-47 [Date published 28/02/1994] (presence of an alarm pheromone)

Kojima, J. 1996. Colony cycle of an Australian swarm-founding paper wasp, Ropalidia romandi (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 43: 411-420 (biology at Atherton, QLD)

Kojima, J. 1996. Meconium egestion by larvae of Ropalidia Guérin (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) without adult aid, with a note on the evolution of meconium extraction behaviour in the tribe Ropalidiini. Australian Journal of Entomology 35(1): 73-75 [Date published 29/02/1996] (behaviour)

Kojima, J. 1999. Taxonomic notes on Australian Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Entomological Science 2(3): 367-377 [375] (distribution)

Kojima, J. 2001. Taxonomic notes on types of the social wasp tribe Ropalidiini (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae, Polistinae) housed mainly in the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève. Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 5: 1-22 [Date published 9/Feb/2001] [4] (notes on lectotype and paralectotypes)

Tsuchida, K., Itô, Y., Katada, S. & Kojima, J. 2000. Genetical and morphological colony structure of the Australian swarm-founding polistine wasp, Ropalidia romandi (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 47: 113-116 (biology)

Yamane, S. & Itô, Y. 1994. Nest architecture of the Australian paper wasp Ropalidia romandi cabeti, with a note on its developmental process (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 101(3–4): 145-158 (nest as Ropalidia romandi cabeti)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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