Subspecies Ropalidia marginata marginata (Lepeletier, 1836)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Epipona marginata Lepeletier de Saint-Fargau, A.L.M. 1836. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes—Hyménoptères. Vol. 1. Paris : Roret pp. 547.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Numbers not provided Male, Female (Collection listed as deposited in "Inde. Musée de M. Serville" - possibly in Torino).
• Vespa ferruginea Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 2 viii 519 pp.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, UZM Numbers not provided, "in India orientali".
• Polistes sumatrae Fabricius, J.C. 1804. Systema Piezatorum : Secundum; Ordines, Genera, Species, Adjectis Synonymis, Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus. Brunsvigae : Carolum Reichard xiv 439 pp.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, UZM Numbers not provided, "in Sumatra".
• Icaria jucunda Cameron, P. 1898. Hymenoptera orientalia, or contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of the oriental zoological region. Part VII. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 42(11): 1-84 pl. iv.

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM Numbers not provided ♀ adult, New Guinea.
• Icaria pruinosa Cameron, P. 1906. Hymenoptera of the Dutch expedition to New Guinea in 1904 and 1905. Part I: Thynnidae, Scoliidae, Pompilidae, Sphegidae and Vespidae. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 49: 215-233.

  Type data:

   Lectotype Female (Lectotype currently in Nederlands Centrum voor Biodiversiteit Naturalis), Digoel, New Guinea.
• Ropalidia marginata sundaica van der Vecht, J. 1941. The Indo-Australian species of the genus Ropalidia (=Icaria) (Hym., Vespidae) (First Part). Treubia 18(1): 103-190 [Date published 31/Aug/1941].

  Type data:

   Holotype Numbers not provided Female (Holotype deposited at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands), Koeripan, between Batavia and Buitenzorg, West Java.
• Ropalidia canaria Cheesman, L.E. 1952. Ropalidia of Papuasia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 5: 1-26 4 pls.

  Type data:

   Holotype NHM-UK Numbers not provided Male, Papua, Kokoda.
• Ropalidia travancorica Lambert, K. Narendran, T.C. & Kumar, P.G. 2005. Taxonomic study of three new species of Ropalidia Guerin (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from Kerala, India. Journal of Current Sciences 7(1): 267–276.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Details not provided Female, Kerala, Travancore, Thiruvanathapuram District, India.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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

 

Generic Combinations

• Ropalidia marginata marginata (Lepeletier, 1836). —
  van der Vecht, J. 1941. The Indo-Australian species of the genus Ropalidia (=Icaria) (Hym., Vespidae) (First Part). Treubia 18(1): 103-190 [Date published 31/Aug/1941]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Also in New Britain and widespread in Indo-Malaya

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	VESPIDAE	20-Jun-2023	ADDED