Species Ropalidia proletaria Richards, 1978
- Ropalidia (Icariola) proletaria Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [96].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, N QLD.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities near Kuranda, Mornington Is. and ?Port Darwin.
IBRA
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 Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), 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. 2000. Affinities of the Australian paper wasp Ropalidia proletaria (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae), with descriptions of males, mature larvae and a nest. Species Diversity 5: 381-390 (descriptions of male, larva and nest; redescription of female)
History of changes
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