Ropalidia cyathiformis ( Fabricius, 1804 )

Gawas, Sandesh M., Kumar, Girish, Pannure, Arati, Gupta, Ankita & Carpenter, James M., 2020, An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India, Zootaxa 4784 (1), pp. 1-87 : 54-55

235) Ropalidia cyathiformis ( Fabricius, 1804)

Eumenes cyathifornis Fabricius, 1804: 289 . Type data: Holotype female, UZMC. Type locality: “ Java ” ( Indonesia).

Icaria ceylonica Cameron, 1898: 48 . Type data: Female, OUM. Type locality: “ Periyakullam , Ceylon” ( Sri Lanka).

Icaria cagayanensis Ashmead, 1905: 3 . Type data: Female, USNM. Type locality: “ Manila ” ( Philippines).

Icaria bilineata Cameron, 1905: 72 . Type data: Lectotype female, BMNH. Type locality: “ Tjandi near Semarang ” ( Indonesia).

Ropalidia cyathiformis ; van der Vecht, 1941: 104, 112,158.

Ropalidia rodialipa Lambert and Narendran, 2005a: 1922–23 . Type data: Holotype male, DZUC. Type locality: Elathur , Kozhikode, Kerala, India.

Ropalidia anupama Lambert and Narendran, 2005b: 270–273 . Type data: Holotype female, ZSIK. Type locality: Calicut University Campus.

Material examined. INDIA: Gujarat: AAU Anand, 1o . xii.2018, 1 ♀, Coll. Ankita Gupta. Karnataka: IWST Bengaluru , 2.viii.2006, 2 ♀, Coll. Naveenkumar; Hebbal Bengaluru, 18.viii.2011, 1 ♀, Coll. Y S Basanth; 2.viii.2013, 2 ♀, Coll. Lakshmi; 10.vi. 2014, 6 ♀, Coll. S K Rajeshwari; 26.vii.2014, 2 ♀, Coll. S K Rajesh- wari; 5.ii.2015, 3 ♀, Coll. S K Rajeshwari; 7.x.2016, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; 3.xii.2018, 4 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; 26.vii.2017, 4 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; Yelahanka Bengaluru; 27.ix.2013, 8 ♀ & 1 ♂, Coll. S K Rajesh- wari; 4.vi.2014, 1 ♀, Coll. Lakshmi; 28.vi.2017, 4 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; 5.vii.2017, 3 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; 4.vi.2016, 3 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh; 26.iv.2017, 6 ♀, Coll. Ashwath; 20.i.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; 12.v.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh; 3.v.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh; Sirsi , 20.vi.2016, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath; Sangam , 31.vii.2018, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; Banerghatta , 30.vii.2019, 5 ♀, Coll. Ash- wath . Maharashtra: Shivajinagar Pune , 21.ii.2017, 3 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas. Rajasthan: MPUAT Udaipur , 21.xi.2015, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh & Umeshkumar.

Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat (new record), Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan (new record), Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: China; Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Philippines; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam. ( Yamane & Yamane 1979, Das & Gupta 1989, Kundu et al. 2006, Nguyen et al. 2006a, Kojima et al. 2007, Kundu et al. 2010, Nugroho et al. 2012, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014b & 2015, Pham 2014, Tan et al. 2014 a, Rafi et al. 2017, Girish Kumar et al. 2017a, Gawas et al. 2019).