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Ropalidia
Ropalidia nobilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Polistinae
Tribe: Ropalidiini
Genus: Ropalidia
Guérin-Méneville 1831
Species
approx. 233 species
Synonyms[1]

Icaria de Saussure, 1853

Ropalidia, also known as small brown paper wasps,[2] is a large genus of eusocial paper wasps (Polistinae) in the tribe Ropalidiini distributed throughout the Afrotropical, Indomalayan and Australasian biogeographical regions. The genus Ropalidia is unusual because it contains both independent and swarm-founding species.[3] Ropalidia romandi is one of the swarm founding species, meaning that new nests are founded by a large group of workers with a smaller number of inseminated females (egg-laying foundresses),[4] while Ropalidia revolutionalis is independent-founding, meaning that each nest is founded by a single foundress.[5]

Description

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Ropalidia can be distinguished from other genera in the tribe by: the pronotum having a dorsal carina but lacking a pretegular carina, the first metasomal segment being petiolate but (in dorsal view) not parallel-sided, and the mesepisternum lacking a scrobal sulcus.[6]

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Species

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There are at least 233 described species of Ropalidia:[1][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

Identification

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References

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  1. ^ a b Kojima, Jun-Ichi; Carpenter, James M. (1997). "Catalog of Species in the Polistine Tribe Ropalidiini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". American Museum Novitates (3199): 1–96.
  2. ^ "Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831". GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. 2023. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  3. ^ Yamane, Soichi; Ito, Yosiaki (1994). "Nest architecture of the Australian paper wasp Ropalidia romandi cabeti, with a note on its developmental process (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 101 (3–4): 145–158. doi:10.1155/1994/92839.
  4. ^ Hunt, James H. (2007). The Evolution of Social Wasps. Oxford University Press. pp. 57–60.
  5. ^ Yosiaki, Itô (1987). "Social behaviour of the Australian paper wasp, Ropalidia revolutionalis (de Saussure) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Journal of Ethology. 5 (2): 115–124. doi:10.1007/bf02349943.
  6. ^ Carpenter, James M.; Nguyen, Lien Phuong Thi (2003). "Keys to the genera of social wasps of South-East Asia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae): Social wasps of South-East Asia". Entomological Science. 6 (3): 183–192. doi:10.1046/j.1343-8786.2003.00016.x.
  7. ^ Kojima, Jun-ichi (1998). "The type of Icaria dubia de Saussure, 1853, and a description of a new Malagasy species of Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae)". Entomological Science. 1 (2): 233–239. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  8. ^ Kojima, Jun-ichi (2001). "Ropalidia wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae, Polistinae) in New Guinea and its adjacent islands (first part)". Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University. 5: 31–60.
  9. ^ Gusenleitner, J. (2001). "Beitrag zur Kenntnis von Faltenwespen der orientalischen Region (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumenidae)". Linzzer Biologische Beitrage. 33: 655–662.
  10. ^ Gusenleitner, J. (2004). "Beschreibung einer neuen Art der Gattung Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville aus Indien (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Linzzer Biologische Beitrage. 36: 1089–1092.
  11. ^ Kojima, Jun-ichi; Lambert, Kishore; Nguyen, Lien T.P.; Saito, Fuki (2007). "Taxonomic notes on the paper wasps of the genus Ropalidia in the Indian subcontinent (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Entomological Science. 10: 373–393. doi:10.1111/j.1479-8298.2007.00237.x. PMC 7163502.
  12. ^ Blommers, Leo H.M. "Taxonomy and natural history of 18 Ropalidia species (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) of Madagascar". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 155: 133–192. doi:10.1163/22119434-00002010.
  13. ^ Polašek, O.; Bellingan, T.; van Noort, S. (2022). "A new species of paper wasp from the genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville from South Africa (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 90: 213–222. doi:10.3897/jhr.90.81581.
  14. ^ Polašek, Ozren; Beer, Len de (2023). "A new species of social wasp from Madagascar with an inverted nest architecture (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 96: 1031–1044. doi:10.3897/jhr.96.103379.
  15. ^ Bui, Hoa Thi Quynh; Mai, Thai Van; Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong. "A new species of the paper wasp genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, plebeja group (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae), from Vietnam". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 96: 543–553. doi:10.3897/jhr.96.103533.
  16. ^ Polašek, Ozren (2024). "A new species of the genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville from central Africa (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Vespidae)". African Invertebrates. 65 (1): 9–14. doi:10.3897/afrinvertebr.65.103539.
  17. ^ Polašek, Ozren; Onah, Ikechukwu; Kehinde, Tope; Rojo, Veronica; van Noort, Simon; Carpenter, James M. (2025). "Revision of the mainland African species of the Old World social wasp genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville 1831 (Hymenoptera; Vespidae)". Zootaxa. 5626 (1): 1–142. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5626.1.1.
  18. ^ Polašek, Ozren (2026). "Description of the male of Ropalidia chromis Polašek, 2024 with further biological notes on the African species of the genus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae)". African Invertebrates. 67 (1): 1–18. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.67.162082.
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