Americant MUSEUM Novrtates PUBLISHED by the AMERICAN MUSEUM of NATURAL HISTORY CENTRAL PARK WEST at 79TH STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y
AMERICANt MUSEUM Novrtates PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY CENTRAL PARK WEST AT 79TH STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10024 Number 3199, 96 pp. May 16, 1997 Catalog of Species in the Polistine Tribe Ropalidiini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) JUN-ICHI KOJIMA4A AND JAMES M. CARPENTER2 ABSTRACT A comprehensive catalog of species in the pol- don, are designated. Lectotypes of three species istine tribe Ropalidiini, which comprises four gen- described by Smith in the Hope Entomological era endemic to the Old World (Ropalidia, Para- Collections, Oxford, and of one species described polybia, Polybioides, and Belonogaster), is pre- by Cheesman in the Natural History Museum, sented. A total of 225 species and subspecies are London, are designated. Nomenclatural changes treated as valid in Ropalidia, nine in Parapolybia, include transfer of Odynerus jaculator Smith, six (and one variety) in Polybioides, and 85 in 1871, to Ropalidia, NEW COMBINATION; and Belonogaster. Lectotypes of 14 species described synonymy of Icaria sericea Cameron, 1911, with by Cameron in the Zoologisch Museum, Amster- Ropalidia wollastoni (Meade-Waldo, 1912), NEW dam, and in the Natural History Museum, Lon- SYNONYMY. INTRODUCTION The subfamily Polistinae of the wasp fam- the largest polistine genus, whose distribu- ily Vespidae, consisting of more than 800 tion is confined to the New World; Ropali- species in 27 genera (Carpenter, 1996; see diini includes the four genera endemic to the also Carpenter et al., 1996), can be divided Old World including Oceania (namely, Be- into four monophyletic tribes (Carpenter, lonogaster, Parapolybia, Polybioides, and 1993). The tribe Polistini comprises the large Ropalidia); and Epiponini includes the re- cosmopolitan genus Polistes; the tribe Mis- maining 21 New World, swarm-founding chocyttarini consists only of Mischocyttarus, genera.
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