Species Ropalidia kurandae Richards, 1978
- Ropalidia (Icariola) kurandae Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [106].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Ellis Beach, N of Cairns, QLD.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
One NSW record possibly a stray.
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)
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. 1998. Larvae of social wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 2: 7-227 [97] (larval description and illustrations)
Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [106] (larva, nest)
Spradbery, J.P. & Kojima, J. 1989. Nest descriptions and colony populations of eleven species of Ropalidia (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in New Guinea. Japanese Journal of Entomology 57(3): 632-653 [Date published 25/Sept/1989] [639] (nest from New Guinea)
History of changes
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