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Ropalidia
aethiopica (Buysson, 1906) |
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Ropalidia
amabala Polašek, Bellingan & van Noort, 2022.
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Ropalidia
anarchica (Saussure, 1853) |
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Ropalidia
antennata (Saussure, 1890) |
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Ropalidia
atra (Saussure, 1890) |
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Ropalidia
bicincta (Saussure, 1890) |
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Ropalidia
brazzai (Buysson, 1906) |
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Ropalidia
capensis (Saussure, 1862) |
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Ropalidia
carinata (Saussure, 1890) |
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Ropalidia cariniscutis
(Cameron, 1910) |
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Ropalidia
cincta (Lepeletier, 1836) |
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Ropalidia constitutionalis
(Saussure, 1853) |
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Ropalidia
democratica (Saussure, 1853) |
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Ropalidia
distigma (Gerstaecker, 1857) |
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Ropalidia
dubia (Saussure, 1853 |
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Ropalidia
ducalis (Saussure, 1900) |
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Ropalidia
fraterna (Saussure, 1900) |
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Ropalidia
galimatia (Saussure, 1853) |
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Ropalidia grandidieri
(Saussure, 1890) |
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Ropalidia guttatipennis
(Saussure, 1853) |
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Ropalidia interjecta
(Saussure, 1900) |
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Ropalidia nitidula
(Saussure, 1890) |
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Ropalidia nobilis
(Gerstaecker, 1857) |
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Ropalidia phalansterica
(Saussure, 1853) |
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Ropalidia prasina (Saussure, 1900) |
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Ropalidia pulchella
(Saussure, 1900) |
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Ropalidia ranavali
(Saussure, 1890) |
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Ropalidia regina
(Saussure, 1900) |
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Ropalidia sakalava
(Saussure, 1900) |
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Ropalidia schulthessi
(Saussure, 1890) |
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Ropalidia scottiana
(Saussure, 1890) |
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Ropalidia subclavata
(Saussure, 1890) |
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Ropalidia tomentosa
(Gerstaecker, 1857) |
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Ropalidia variabilis
(Saussure, 1890) |
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Ropalidia velutina
(Saussure, 1890) |
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Ropalidia venustula
(Saussure, 1900) |
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Ropalidia vetripennis
(Saussure, 1890) |
Distribution
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Afrotropical and Indo-Australasian regions.
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Biology |
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Social, constructing communal, vertically
orientated paper nests with horizontally orientated cells. (Polistes
construct horizontally orientated combs with vertically orientated
cells). Larvae are fed
on chewed-up, soft-bodied insects such as caterpillars. See
Polistinae
Paper wasp home page for more details. |
References |
Bequaert, J.C. 1918.
A revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the
American Museum Congo Expedition: with a list of Ethiopian diplopterous wasps.
Bulletin of the Bulletin American Museum of Natural History
39: 1-384.
Brooks RW & Wahl DB. 1987. Biology and mature
larva of Hemipimpla pulchripennis (Saussure), a parasite of
Rhopalidia (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Vespidae). Journal of the
New York Entomological Society. 95: 547–552.
Picker,
M., Griffiths, C & Weaving, A. 2002. Field Guide to Insects of South Africa.
Struik Publishers, Cape Town.
Polašek O, Bellingan T, van Noort S. 2022.
A new species of paper wasp from the genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville
from South Africa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of Hymenoptera
Research 90: 213–222.
https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.90.81581 |
Credits
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Photographs
© Vida van der Walt (Pretoria) or © Mike Picker & Charles Griffiths (University of Cape Town)
or © Alan Weaving (published
in Struik's
Field Guide to Insects of South Africa) or ©
Duncan MacFayden or
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)
or © Desiré Pelser (Kloof, Durban) or ©
Alan Manson
or © Karen Eichholz, or © Terence Bellingan. |
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