socialistica (de Saussure)

Icaria socialistica de Saussure: 27, pl. 4 Fig. 6., female - “La Tasmanie ” (lectotype Paris). - Smith, 1857: 96 (cat.) - Froggatt, 1892: 232 (cat.). - Dalla Torre, 1894: 121 (cat.); 1904: 74 (cat.). - Richards, 1978: 81 (designation of lectotype; type locality probably erroneous). - Kojima, 2001a: 10 (notes on types).

Ropalidia socialistica; Tillyard, 1925: 297. - Richards, 1978: 58 (list), 62, 64 (key), 81, Figs 10, 28, 38 (in subgenus Icariola; male; distr.). - Hook & Evans, 1982: 271 (nest; ethology). - Cardale, 1985: 216 (in subgenus Icariola; cat.). - Cantrell, 1986: 256 (tachinid parasite: Anacamptomyia sp.). - Itô, 1990: 69–70 (in subgenus Icariola; ethology); 1993: 89, 134 (in subgenus Icariola; ethology). - Forster, 1994: 215 (pollination). - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997a: 53 (cat.). - Carpenter, 1999: 38 (note on supposed type). - Kojima, 1999b: 375 (note on lectotype); 1999c: 384 (key), 386 (distr.), Figs 60, 66, 68. - Zhu et al., 2000: 324–338 (microsatellites). - Saito & Kojima, 2005b: 273 (note on lectotype). - Brown, 2009: 30 (? North Coast).

Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal, (N coastal); Qld., N. S. W., N. T. specimens may be incorrectly labeled.