Ropalidia nigrita Das & Gupta, 1989

Dorji, Phurpa, Nidup, Tshering, Klein, Wim, Dorji, Cheten, Daglio, Anthony & Gyeltshen, Choki, 2022, An annotated checklist of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of Bhutan with new records, Zootaxa 5150 (3), pp. 301-332 : 318-319

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50. Ropalidia nigrita Das & Gupta, 1989 View in CoL

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Ropalidia (Anthreneida) nigrita Das and Gupta, 1989: 130 View in CoL . Type data: Holotype male, NZC. Type locality: Moirang , Manipur, India.

Materials examined: NBCB-00579, 19.vii.15, 1 ♀, Bangtar , Samdrup Jongkhar, Bhutan (27°53'31"N & 91°41'42"E, 258m), Leg.: Tshering Nidup & Phurpa Dorji; GoogleMaps NBCB-00580, 15.iv.2016, 1 ♀, Pangbang, Zhemgang, Bhutan (26°50'36.6"N & 90°59'34.7"E, 390 m), Leg.: Thinley Gyeltshen, Phurpa Dorji & Tshering Nidup; GoogleMaps NBCB-00581, 27.x.2015, 1 ♀, Bajo Thango, Wangduephodrang, Bhutan (27°30'55"N & 89°53'14"E, 1218 m), Leg.: Phurpa Dorji & Wim Klein; GoogleMaps NBCB-00582 & NBCB-00583, 26.x.2015, 2 ♂, Kapatapsa, Wangduephodrang, Bhutan (27°42'39"N & 89°45'54"E, 1476 m), Leg.: Phurpa Dorji & Wim Klein GoogleMaps .

Distribution: Bhutan (new record): Samdrup Jongkhar, Zhemgang, Wangduephodrang. Elsewhere: Nepal; India; Vietnam ( Bui et al. 2020; Das & Gupta 1989; Gawas et al. 2020; Kojima et al. 2007; Nguyen, Kojima, et al. 2006; Pham 2014; Pham & Li 2015)

Remarks: Specimens of R. nigrita were misidentified as R. artifex (Dorji, Gyeltshen, et al. 2017; Dorji, Klein, et al. 2017b). According to Kojima et al. (2007), the Indian-subcontinent is devoid of R. artifex .

References

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Das, B. P. & Gupta, V. K. (1989) The social wasps of India and the adjacent countries. Oriental Insects Monograph, 11, 1 - 292. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.1989.11835532

Gawas, S. M., Kumar, P. G., Pannure, A., Gupta, A. & Carpenter, J. M. (2020) An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India. Zootaxa, 4784 (1), 1 - 87. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4784.1.1

Kojima, J. I., Lambert, K., Nguyen, L. T. P. & Saito, F. (2007) Taxonomic notes on the paper wasps of the genus Ropalidia in the Indian subcontinent (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Entomological Science, 10, 373 - 393. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1479 - 8298.2007.00237. x

Pham, P. H. (2014) A checklist of Ropalidiini wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae) in Indochina. Archives of Biological Sciences, 66 (3), 1061 - 1074. https: // doi. org / 10.2298 / ABS 1403061 P

Pham, P. H. & Li, T. J. (2015) A first list of vespid wasps from Vietnam (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Russian Entomological Journal, 24 (2), 133 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.15298 / rusentj. 24.2.05