mutabilis Richards, 1978

Ropalidia mutabilis mutabilis Richards, 1978: 53 (nest), 60 (key), 94, female, male, nest (in subgenus Icariola) - “ Northern Territory, Downs Homestead, 2 miles ENE. Victoria River, 16°24’S., 131°02’E.”(holotype female Canberra); also from numerous other localities in NT, and WA. - Cardale, 1985: 215 (in subgenus Icariola; cat.). - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997a: 42 (cat.). - Kojima, 1999b: 367, 372, 373 (syn. of R. interrupta van der Vecht); 2000a: 34 (notes on types); 2001a: 8 (synonymy doubtful). - Brown, 2009: 30 (North Coast, Northern Gulf).

“ Ropalidia sp., possibly interruptaI”; Kojima, 1987a: 145, Figs 44–51 (larva).

Ropalidia interrupta; Kojima, 1999b: 372 (syn: R. mutabilis mutabilis Richards) [partim].

Ropalidia mutabilis; Saito & Kojima, 2005a: 184 (key), 185, Figs 19, 26–27 (in variegata group; W. A.).

Distr.: N. T., W. A.