Ropalidia brevita Das & Gupta, 1989

Mahmood, Khalid, Ullah, Mishkat, Aziz, Abdul, Hasan, Syed Azhar & Inayatullah, Mian, 2012, To the knowledge of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Pakistan, Zootaxa 3318, pp. 26-50 : 41

Ropalidia brevita Das & Gupta, 1989

Figs 16 (a–d)

Female: Body length 12–13 mm (n = 15), fore wing length 9–11 mm (n = 15). Male: Body length 12.5–14.25 mm (n = 2), fore wing length 11 mm (n = 2).

Material examined. PAKISTAN: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Mansehra, 1ɗ, 02.viii.1988, Ghari Habibullah, 1ɗ, 12.vi.1991, Abro ( PMNH). Abbottabad, 1Ψ, 20.viii.2008, Mansehra, 1Ψ, 22.viii.2008, Aziz ( KPAUP). Punjab, Islamabad, 1Ψ, 05.vii.2005, 1Ψ, 02.vi.2005, 1Ψ, 13.vi.2005, 2Ψ, 15.vi.2005, 1Ψ, 17.vi.2005, 2Ψ, 05.ix.2005, 2Ψ, 18.vii.2006, 1Ψ, 19.v.2007, 1Ψ, 21.v.2007, 1Ψ, 02.vi.2007, 3Ψ, 18–26. vi.2007, 1 Ψ, 02.vii.2007, 1Ψ, 15.ix.2007, Fida, 1Ψ, 15.vi.2005, 1Ψ, 30.vii.2007, Khurram ( PMNH).

Distribution. India ( Das & Gupta 1989) and Pakistan (new record).

Figures

FIGURE 16. Ropalidia brevita. a, habitus; b, head, frontal view; c, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; d, metasoma, dorsal view.