marginata marginata (Lepeletier)

Vespa ferruginea Fabricius, 1793: 280 - “in India orientali” (Kobenhavn) [Junior primary homonym of Vespa ferruginea Gmelin, 1790, and Vespa ferruginea Olivier, 1792]. - Zimsen, 1964: 404 (list).

? Polistes sumatrae Fabricius, 1804: 273 - “in Sumatra ” (Kobenhavn) [Junior secondary homonym of Ropalidia sumatrae (Weber) (= Vespa sumatrae Weber, 1801)]. - Zimsen, 1964: 404 (list).

Polistes ferruginea; Fabricius, 1804: 277.

Epipona marginata Lepeletier, 1836: 541, male, female - “ Inde ” (coll. Serville,? Torino). - Smith, 1852: 47.

Icaria ferruginea; de Saussure, 1853: 38 (“Indes Orientales”). - Smith, 1857: 97 (cat.); 1858: 115 (distr.); 1858 [1859]: 22 (distr.); 1863 [1864]a: 42 (distr.); 1863 [1864]b: 138 (distr.). - Horne, 1870: 169 (ethology). - Smith, 1871: 378 (distr.). - Gribodo, 1884: 356. - André, 1889: 189. - Dalla Torre, 1894: 118 (cat.). - Bingham, 1897: 386 (key), 387 (female; distr.). - Cameron, 1900b: 495 (male). - Dalla Torre, 1904: 73 (cat.).

Icaria marginata; de Saussure, 1854: 237 (“Indes Orientales”). - Smith, 1857: 97 (cat.). - de Saussure, 1862: 139. - Gribodo, 1884: 355. - Dalla Torre, 1894: 119 (cat.). - Bingham, 1897: 387 (key), 388 (distr.). - Dalla Torre, 1904: 74 (cat.).- Cameron, 1905: 73. - von Schulthess, 1927: 83 (distr.); 1932: 40. - Suehiro, 1960: 298 (Midway). - Nishida, 1992: 182 (Midway).

Icaria jucunda Cameron, 1898: 46, female - “New Guinea ” (Oxford). - Dalla Torre, 1904: 73 (cat.). - Cameron, 1906b: 230 (compared to I. pruinosa n. sp.). - Nguyen et al., 2006: 93, 101 (syn. of typical R. marginata (Lepeletier)) .

Icaria pruinosa Cameron, 1906b: 228, female - [New Guinea] “Digoel” (lectotype Naturalis). - van der Vecht, 1941: 104 (syn. of R. marginata jucunda (Cameron)) . - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997a: 5 (designation of lectotype). - Kojima & van Achterberg, 1997a: 165 (list). - Kojima, 2001b: 36 (synonymy confirmed).

Ropalidiaferruginea; Bequaert,1918:247 [misidentification?].- Dover&Rao,1922:244 [misidentification?]. - Salt & Bequaert, 1929: 263 (record of stylopized specimen). - Dover, 1929: 46; 1931 [1930}: 257 (distr.). - Lee, 1982: 83 (key), 85, pl. 5 Fig. 5 (in subgenus Anthreneida); 1985: 46 (key), 49 (in subgenus Anthreneida; female, distr.) [error: year of publication 1792]. -? Bhattacharjee et al., 2002: 35 (India).

Ropalidia marginata; Dover & Rao, 1922: 244. - Gadgil & Mahabal, 1974: 482 (ethology). - Richards, 1978: 58 (in subgenus Icariola; list), 64 (key), 65 (larva in key). - Gadagkar, 1980: 772–775 (ethology). - Belavadi & Govindan, 1981: 95 (in subgenus Icariola; ethology). - Gadagkar et al., 1982a: 49–61 (ecology); 1982b: 539–552 (ecology). - Gadagkar & Joshi, 1982: 187 (ethology); 1983: 26 (ethology). - Gadagkar, 1985: 319 (ethology). - Muralidharan et al., 1986: 153–158 (ethology). - Gadagkar et al., 1988: 175-189 (ethology). - Venkataraman et al., 1988: 271–279 (ethology). - Gadagkar, 1990a: 20 (ethology); 1990b: 129 (ethology). - Chandrashekara & Gadagkar, 1990a: 153–160 (ethology). - Gadagkar et al., 1990a: 141–150 (ethology). - Kojima & Yamane, 1990: 34 (key), 35 (Palau Islands). - Gadagkar, 1990c: 9 (ethology). - Venkataraman & Gadagkar, 1990: 71– 72 (ethology). - Chandrashekara & Gadagkar, 1990b: 73–74 (ethology). - Chandran & Gadagkar, 1990: 78 (ethology). - Nair et al., 1990: 79 (ethology). - Chandrashekara et al., 1990: 81 (ethology). - Venkataraman et al., 1990: 161–171 (ethology). - Gadagkar et al., 1990b: 227–228 (ethology). - Belavadi & Veeresh, 1990: 481–482 (prey). - Chandrashekara & Gadagkar, 1991a: 269 (ethology); 1991b: 213–216 (ethology). - Gadagkar et al., 1991a: 435 (ethology); 1991b: 167 (ethology); 1991c: 523 (castes). - Gadagkar, 1991: 160, 164, 173, 180, 189–190, Figs 5.2d, 5.5, 5.11 (ethology). - Spradbery, 1991b: 349, 352, 354 (colony population). - Ross & Carpenter, 1991: 459, 460, 464 (biology). - Venkataraman & Gadagkar, 1992: 285-299 (ethology). - Chandrashekara & Gadagkar, 1992: 193–209 (ethology). - Gadagkar et al., 1993a: 714–717 (ethology); 1993b: 188 (ethology). - Venkataraman & Gadagkar, 1993: 601–604 (ethology). - Itô, 1993: 51, 74, 131, 133 (ethology). - Raghuwanshi, 1993: 5 (morphology). - Raghuwanshi & Pathak, 1993: 19 (physiology). - Gadagkar, 1994: 263 (ethology). - Gadagkar & Bonner, 1994: 219 (ethology). - Premnath et al., 1994: 242 (ethology). - Itô, 1995: 42 (ethology). - Gadagkar, 1995: 185 (ethology). - Premnath et al., 1995: 117 (ethology). - Shakarad & Gadagkar, 1995: 273–282 (ethology). - Venkataraman & Gadagkar, 1995: 299–313 (ethology). - Gadagkar, 1996a: 248–271 (ethology); 1996b: 333 (ethology); 1996c: 18 (ethology); 1996d: 8 (ethology); 1996e: 135 (ethology). - Shakarad & Gadagkar, 1996: 145 (ethology). - Arathi & Gadagkar, 1996: 153 (ethology). - Premnath et al., 1996a: 160 (ethology). - Strassmann et al., 1996: 461 (genetics). - Premnath et al., 1996b: 125 (ethology). - Kojima & van Achterberg, 1997b: 2 (Sulawesi). - Shakarad & Gadagkar, 1997: 79–82 (ethology). - Arathi et al., 1997a: 139–146 (ethology); 1997b: 343–353 (ethology). - Naug & Gadagkar, 1998a: 37–47 (ethology); 1998b: 247–254 (ethology). - Arathi & Gadagkar, 1998: 295-299 (ethology). - Kojima, 1998: 91, 218, Figs 572–577 (larva); 1999c: 380 (key), 384 (distr.), Figs 14, 19–20. - Sumana & Gadagkar, 2001: 273–281 (ethology). - Gadagkar, 2001a: 1–368 (biology); 2001b: 397–402 (ethology). - Naug, 2002: 1115-1123 (ethology). - Fujiyama et al., 2002: 4 (Lombok). - Kardile & Gadagkar, 2002: 176–179 (ethology). - Nishida & Beardsley, 2002: 55 (Midway). - Kardile & Gadagkar, 2003: 1219–1234 (ethology). - Sumana & Gadagkar, 2003: 1464–1468 (ethology). - Agrahari & Gadagkar, 2003: 217–222 (physiology); 2004a: 237–253; 2004b: 306–307 (ethology). - Kojima et al., 2004: 168 (key), 175, Fig. 22. - Gadagkar & Chandrashekara, 2005: 107–124 (ethology). - Naug & Wenzel, 2006: 62–68 (ethology). - Sen & Gadagkar, 2006: 345-350 (ethology). - Bruyndonckx et al., 2006: 100–103 (ethology). - Nguyen et al., 2006: 94 (key), 101, Fig. 2 (syns.: I. jucunda Cameron, R. marginata sundaica van der Vecht; Vietnam). - Deshpande et al., 2006: 332–336 (ethology). - Kojima et al., 2007 [2006]: 18; 2007: 374 (key), 380, Figs 3, 23, 31–32 (syn.: R. travancorica Lambert & Narendran; India). - Bhadra et al., 2007: 574–582 (ethology). - Lamba et al., 2007: 351–356 (ethology); 2008: 677–680 (ethology). - Sumana et al., 2008: 207–212 (ethology). - Bhadra & Gadagkar, 2008: 634–637 (ethology). - Bhadra et al., 2009: 48–55 (ethology). - Johny et al., 2009: 1172–1175 (microsatellites). - Gadagkar, 2009: 10407 – 10414 (social life). - Naug, 2009: 1023–1028 (ethology). - Jayaprakash & Ebenezer, 2010a: 6–8 (nest fungi); 2010b: 113–117 (fungal lipase actitivy). - Shilpa et al., 2010: 42–46 (ethology). - Sen et al., 2010: 95-103 (ethology). - Bang et al., 2010: 631–636 (dominance indices). - Bhadra et al., 2010: 424–431 (ethology). - Sen & Gadagkar, 2010: 959–968 (male behavior). - Mitra et al., 2011: 280–284 (ethology). - Mitra & Gadagkar, 2011: 157–161 (ethology). - Nugroho et al., 2012 [2011]: 155 (list). - Saha et al., 2012: 41–44 (ethology). - Shilpa et al., 2012: 61–65 (mating system). - Mitra & Gadagkar, 2012: 251–255 (physiology). - Bang & Gadagkar, 2012: 14494 –14499 (ethology). - Nandi et al., 2013: 34–44 (ethology). - Shukla et al., 2013a: 181–187 (physiology); 2013b: 345-350 (ethology). - Mitra & Gadagkar, 2014: 9 (physiology). - Shukla et al., 2014: 22–26 (physiology). - Mitra et al., 2014: 113–124 (ethology). - Barthélémy et al., 2014: 9 (list). - Kumar & Sharma, 2014: 234 (list), 237. - Tan et al., 2014: 4 (key), 21, Fig. 1H (Vietnam; India; Indonesia; Sri Lanka). - Mitra, 2014: 1024–1044 (physiology). - Witharana et al., 2015: 5-9 (anaphylaxis). - Mitra et al., 2015: 281–289 (physiology). - Gadagkar, 2015: 161–183 (family system). - Mandal & Gadagkar, 2015: 795-802 (ethology). - Gadagkar, 2016: 20150094 (evolution). - Bang & Gadagkar, 2016: 349–352 (ethology). - Rafi et al., 2017: 21 (list). - Kumar et al., 2017: 13 (list). - Mandal et al., 2017: 915-927 (ethology). - Gadagkar, 2017: 67–75 (ethology). - Mandal et al., 2018: 272831 (ethology). -- Saha et al., 2018: 54–65 (ethology). - Chakraborty et al., 2018a: 429–438 (ethology); 2018b: 695-705 (ethology). - Brahma et al., 2018a: 756–761 (ethology); 2018b: 8–11 (ethology). - Bang, 2019: 1–3 (ethology). - Mandal & Brahma, 2019: jeb199844 (ethology). - Brahma et al., 2019: 335-342 (ethology). - Sharma & Gadagkar, 2019: 20191212 (ethology). - Gawas et al., 2020: 56 (India; cat.). - Krishnan et al., 2021: 319–325 (ethology). - Sharma et al., 2022: 21–36 (ethology).

Ropalidia jucunda; Bequaert, 1932: 50.

Ropalidia pruinosa; Bequaert, 1932: 51.

Ropalidia marginata var. sundaica “v. d. Vecht (in lit.)” Bequaert & Yasumatsu, 1939: 315. Nomen nudum.

Ropalidia marginata jucunda; van der Vecht, 1941: 104 (syn: I. pruinosa Cameron), 124 (distr.); 1962: 13 (specimens from the Philippines placed under jucunda in 1941 paper are to be in sundaica). - Baltazar, 1966: 292 (in subgenus Anthreneida; cat.). - Crosskey, 1973: 1–221 (dipterous parasite).- Richards 1978: 60 (key), 100 (in subgenus Icariola; distr.). - Yamane & Yamane, 1979: 6 (compared to R. spatulata). - Yamane & Okazawa, 1981: 69, Fig. 4 (larva). - Cardale, 1985: 215 (in subgenus Icariola; cat.). - Spradbery & Kojima, 1989: 637 (colony population; parasite). - Spradbery, 1991b: 352 (colony population). - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997a: 37 (cat.). - Kojima, 1999b: 368; 2001b: 36, 55 (syns.: I. pruinosa Cameron, R. canaria Cheesman).

Ropalidia marginata marginata; van der Vecht, 1941: 109 (key), 117 (Fig.; taxonomy; distr.); 1962: 11 (in subgenus Anthreneida; distr.). - Yamane & Yamane, 1979: 32 (in subgenus Anthreneida; distr.). - Das & Gupta, 1984 [1983]: 419 (cat.; distr.); 1989: 110, 118, map 15 (in marginata -group of subgenus Anthreneida; key; Fig.; distr.). - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997a: 37 (cat.). - Bhattacharjee et al., 2002: 35 (India). - Gusenleitner, 2006: 686 (India). - Pham, 2014: 1066 (list).

Ropalidia marginata indica van der Vecht, 1941: 121 (“ holotype ” from Amballa) [replacement name for Vespa ferruginea Fabricius, 1793]; 1962: 5 (clarification that this is a replacement name for ferruginea Fabricius, and not to be considered as a new taxon).

Ropalidia marginata sundaica van der Vecht, 1941: 122, female, male - “Koeripan, between Batavia and Buitenzorg, W. Java” (holotype female Leiden); also from Mariana Is.; Malay Peninsula; Bangka; Borneo; Kariman Djawa Isl. - Yasumatsu, 1945: 35 (distr.). - van der Vecht, 1962: 12 (distr.; bionomics). - Baltazar, 1966: 292 (in subgenus Anthreneida; cat.). - Iwata, 1976: 295 (in subgenus Anthreneida; ethology). - Richards, 1978: 54 (nest). - Kojima, 1984a: 55, Fig. 5 (larva); 1984b: 523 (key), 526, 530, 531 (in subgenus Icariola; Fig.; distr.; male genitalia;). - Miyano, 1994a: 209 (distr.); 1994b: 237 (ethology; nest). - Yamane, 1991: 55 (Volcano Islands). - Macalintal & Starr, 1996: table 1 (in subgenus Icariola; morphology). - Kusigemati et al., 1996: 12 (Palau Islands). - Kojima & van Achterberg, 1997a: 161 (list). - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997a: 39 (cat.). - Nguyen et al., 2006: 93, 101 (syn. of typical R. marginata (Lepeletier)) . - Pham, 2014: 1066 (list).

Ropalidia canaria Cheesman, 1952: 3, 19, male - “ Papua, Kokoda” (London). - Richards, 1978: 58 (in subgenus Icariola; list). - Kojima, 2001b: 36 (syn. of R. marginata jucunda (Cameron)) .

Ropalidia travancorica Lambert and Narendran, 2005, in Lambert et al.: 267, 273, Figs 11–15, female (in subgenus Icarielia) - “ India; Kerala, Travancore, Thiruvanathapuram District, Palayam Kotta (8°29’N 76°55’E ” (Calicut). - Kojima et al., 2007: 373, 380 (syn. of R. marginata (Lepeletier)) .

Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.; also widespread in Indo-Malaya.