Ropalidia brevita, Das & Gupta

Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, Zootaxa 3914 (5), pp. 501-524 : 516

riorly; apical portion of male antennae poorly curved and blunt pointed......................... R. brevita Das & Gupta - Pair of carinae absent at the base of propodeum ( Fig. 30 ); second metasomal tergum and metasomal petiole having yellow band posteriorly and yellow spots anteriorly; apical portion of male antennae swollen.......... R. cyathiformis (Fabricius) Ropalidia cyathiformis ( Fabricius, 1804)

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Eumenes cyathiformis Fabricius, 1804: 289 , “Java” (holotype ♀, Kobenhavn).

Icaria ceylonica Cameron, 1898: 48 , ♀, “Periyakullam, Ceylon ” (Oxford).

Icaria Cagayanensis Ashmead, 1905: 3 [cayayanensis!], ♀, [ Philippines] “Manila” (Washington).

Icaria bilineata Cameron, 1905: 72 , ♀, “Tjandi near Semarang” (lectotype, London).

Ropalidia rodialpa Lambert & Narendran, 2005 , in Lambert et al. 2005a: 1920, 1923, figs 11–15, ♂ [♀] (in subgenus Anthreneida White ), [ India] “Elathur [11°20'N, 75°44'E), Kozhikode District, Kerala” (Univ. Calicut).

Ropalidia anupama Lambert & Narendran, 2005 , in Lambert et al. 2005b: 267, 270, figs 6–10, ♀ (in subgenus Icarielia Dalla Torre ), “ India; Kerala, malappuram district, Calicut University Campus (11°7'N, 75°52'E ” (Univ. Calicut).

Material examined. Rawalpindi, 10.v.12, 2♀, 17.v.12, 2♀, 1♂, 18.v.12, 2♀; Attock, 26.v.12, 4♀, 2♂; Chakwal, 16.iv.12, 3♀, 4♂.

Distribution. Pakistan, Nepal, India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia and Sri Lanka (Kojima & Carpenter 1997, Mahmood et al. 2012).

Comments. Collected specimens were compared with Mahmood et al. (2012). This species is distinguished on the basis of propodeum with two yellow stripes on both side. It is reported for the first time from Pothwar region, Pakistan.

Figures

FIGURES 30, 31. Mesosoma, dorsal view. 30. Ropalidia cyathiformis. 31. R. brevita.