Ropalidia rufoplagiata ( Cameron, 1905 )

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 : 58

247) Ropalidia rufoplagiata ( Cameron, 1905)

Icaria rufoplagiata Cameron, 1905: 71 . Type data: Lectotype female, ZMA. Type locality: “Tjandi near Semarang”.

Ropalidia gravelyi Dover and Rao (1922) : 244. Type data: Female, NZC. Type locality: Kavalai , Kochi, Kerala, India.

Ropalidia rufoplagiata ; van der Vecht, 1941: 111, 165.

Ropalidia rufoplagiata var. gravelyi ; van der Vecht (1941): 168.

Ropalidia rufoplagiata nursei van der Vecht, 1941: 167 . Type data: Female, BMNH. Type locality: Bombay (Maharashtra)

Ropalidia rufoplagiata rufoplagiata ; van der Vecht, 1962: 32.

Ropalidia nursei ; Richards, 1978: 57.

Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Kanakpura , 9.i.2014, 1 ♀, Coll. S K Rajeshwari ; Hebbal Bengaluru , 8.vi.2014, 1 ♀, Coll. Mallesh ; 3.xii.2018, 5 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; Veternary College Bengaluru , 7.viii.2017, 6 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; NBAIR Bengaluru , 28.ix.2018, 1 ♀ & 7 ♂, Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; Tumkur , 9.vii.2019, 1 ♀, Coll. S K Rajeshwari.

Distribution. India: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand. Elsewhere: Bhutan; Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Thailand; Timor; Vietnam. ( Nguyen et al. 2006a, Kojima et al. 2007, Kundu et al. 2010, Nugroho et al. 2012, Pham & Li 2015, Dorji et al. 2017a, Girish Kumar et al. 2017a).