254) Ropalidia sumatrae (Weber, 1801) Vespa sumatrae Weber, 1801: 103. Type data:? ZMB. Type locality: “ Sumatra ” (Indonesia). Vespa mutillata Illiger, 1802: 189. Type data: ZMB. Type locality: “ Sumatra ” (Indonesia). Polistes pubescens Fabricius, 1804: 279. Type data: UZMC. Type locality: “ Sumatra ” (Indonesia). Eumenes formicaria Fabricius, 1804: 288. Type data: Female, male, UZMC. Type locality: “America meridionali”. Anthreneida coronata White, 1841: 321. Type data: BMNH. Icaria speciosa de Saussure, 1855: 374. Type data: Male, UZMC. Type locality: “ Sumatra ” (Indonesia). Icaria lugubris Smith, 1858: 115. Icharia [!] marangensis Gribodo, 1892: 243. Type data: Female, MSNG. Type locality: “ Marang (Sumatra) and Perek (Malacca)”. Icaria rufinoda Cameron, 1904d: 121. Type data: Female, BMNH. Type locality: Singapore. Ropalidia sumatrae van der Vecht, 1941: 104. Ropalidia sumatrae sumatrae van der Vecht, 1962: 35. Ropalidia krishna Dover and Rao, 1922: 246. Ropalidia lugubris; Dover, 1925: 302. Ropalidia sumatrae lugubris; van der Vecht, 1941: 104, 185. Distribution. India: West Bengal. Elsewhere: China; Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Singapore; Thailand; Vietnam. (Jonathan et al. 1996, Jonathan et al. 2000a, Kojima et al. 2007, Nugroho et al. 2012, Pham 2014, Tan et al. 2014a, Pham & Li 2015, Girish Kumar et al. 2017a, Bui et al. 2019).

Published as part of Gawas, Sandesh M., Kumar, Girish, Pannure, Arati, Gupta, Ankita & Carpenter, James M., 2020, An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India, pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 4784 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3862319