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Issue: Vol. 3947 No. 2: 15 Apr. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.5
Page range: 215–235
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 1

Review of the paper wasps of the Parapolybia indica species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae) in eastern parts of Asia

Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito, 310-8512 and Faculty of Geo-environmental Science, Rissho University, Kumagaya, 360-0194 Japan.
Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Natural History Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito, 310-8512 Japan and Division of Invertabrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
Ropalidiini new species new records social wasp East Asia

Abstract

Nine species of the Parapolybia indica species-group in eastern parts of Asia are reviewed. Four new species are described: P. flava sp. nov. (Vietnam), P. crocea sp. nov. (Japan), P. nana sp. nov. (Vietnam), and P. albida sp. nov. (Vietnam). Parapolybia indica (de Saussure, 1854), P. bioculata van der Vecht, 1966 and P. tinctipennis (Cameron, 1900) are redescribed. The status is reinstanted for P. fulvinerva (Cameron, 1900), stat. resurr. and P. tinctipennis (Cameron, 1900), stat. resurr. and new status is proposed for P. bioculata van der Vecht, 1966, stat. nov. Parapolybia tinctipennis (Cameron, 1900) is newly recorded from China, Vietnam and Laos. The key to species is given. The nests of P. indica, P. bioculata, P. tinctipennis, P. flava and P. crocea are remarked.