Ropalidia fasciata (Fabricius, 1804)

Kudô, K., Katada, S., Hasegawa, E., Igarashi, S., Sekihara, N., Yamaguchi, Y., Yamahira, K. & Koji, S., 2022, Polymorphic microsatellite loci for the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia fasciata (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Far Eastern Entomologist 452, pp. 12-16 : 12

EUSOCIAL WASP ROPALIDIA FASCIATA ( HYMENOPTERA : VESPIDAE )

K. Kudô 1,*), S. Katada 2), E. Hasegawa 3), S. Igarashi 1), N. Sekihara 1), Y. Yamaguchi 1), K. Yamahira 4), S. Koji 5)

1) Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Faculty of Education , Niigata University, Niigata 950-

2181 Japan. *Corresponding author, E-mail: [e-mail]

2) Laboratory of Biodiversity , Tokyo Kasei University, Tokyo 173-8602 Japan .

3) Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Department of Ecology and Systematics, Graduate

School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589 Japan.

4) Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa Japan.

5) Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata

University, Niigata 950-2181, Japan.

Summary. A polymorphic microsatellite locus was isolated and characterized from

Ropalidia fasciata (Fabricius, 1804) , one of the most common in South-East Asia independent-founding polistine wasps ( Vespidae : Polistinae ). Four other microsatellite loci for which the primer sets were originally developed in two Ropalidia species also showed polymorphism in the size of amplification products in R. fasciata .