Species Ropalidia impetuosa (Smith, 1860)
- Icaria impetuosa Smith, F. 1860. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr A.R. Wallace in the Islands of Bachian, Kaisaa, Amboyne, Gilolo, and at Dory in New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 4(suppl.): 93-143 pl. 1 [18 July 1860] [131].
Type data:
Lectotype OUM ♀ adult, Batchian (as Bachian), Indonesia.
Paralectotype(s) OUM ♀ adult, Ambon Is. (as Amboyna), Indonesia.Subsequent designation references:
Kojima, J. & Carpenter, J.M. 1997. Catalog of species in the Polistine tribe Ropalidiini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). American Museum Novitates 3199: 1-96 [Date published 16/05/1997] [4]. - Icaria spilocephala Cameron, P. 1906. Hymenoptera of the Dutch expedition to New Guinea in 1904 and 1905. Part 1: Thynnidae, Scoliidae, Pompilidae, Sphegidae and Vespidae. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 49: 215-233 [230].
Type data:
Lectotype ZMA ♀ adult, Etna Bay, New Guinea.Subsequent designation references:
Kojima, J. & Carpenter, J.M. 1997. Catalog of species in the Polistine tribe Ropalidiini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). American Museum Novitates 3199: 1-96 [Date published 16/05/1997] [5].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- 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] [9] (also see for extended extralimital synonymy)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
New Ireland.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: predator, sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Social, nests of 'paper'.
General References
Itô, Y., Katada, S., Tsuchida, K. & Rowe, R.J. 1996. Social structure of the primitively eusocial paper wasp Ropalidia gregaria spilocephala (Cameron) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Queensland. Australian Journal of Entomology 35: 231-233 (social organisation at Townsville and Cairns, QLD as Ropalidia gregaria spilocephala)
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] [145] (larval description and illustrations as Ropalidia gregaria gregaria)
Kojima, J. 1999. Taxonomic notes on Australian Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Entomological Science 2(3): 367-377 [371] (distribution as Ropalidia gregaria)
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] [636] (nest from New Guinea as Ropalidia gregaria spilocephala)
History of changes
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