Genus Parapolybia de Saussure, 1854 Parapolybia de Saussure 1854: 207; von Schulthess 1913: 152; van der Vecht 1966: 5, 21; Gadagkar 1991: 149. Type species. Polybia indica de Saussure, 1854, by subsequent designation (Bingham 1897: 382). Parapolybia is one of the four genera of the tribe Ropalidiini. It differs from other ropalidiine genera in the combination of the following characters: female and male antenna with respectively ten and 11 flagellomeres; pronotal carina incomplete, obliterated ventrally; pronotum with pretegular carina; mesepisternum with scrobal sulcus; T1 much longer than T2 width, posteriorly more or less distinctly swollen dorsally and laterally.

Published as part of Saito-Morooka, Fuki, Nguyen, Lien T. P. & Kojima, Jun-Ichi, 2015, Review of the paper wasps of the Parapolybia indica species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae) in eastern parts of Asia, pp. 215-235 in Zootaxa 3947 (2) on page 216, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/232726