Ropalidia marginata

Ropalidia marginata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Polistinae
Tribe: Ropalidiini
Genus: Ropalidia
Species:
R. marginata
Binomial name
Ropalidia marginata
Subspecies
  • Ropalidia marginata jucunda
  • Ropalidia marginata marginata
  • Ropalidia marginata rufitarsis
  • Ropalidia marginata sundaica

Ropalidia marginata is an Old World species of paper wasp. It is primitively eusocial, not showing the same bias in brood care seen in other social insects with greater asymmetry in relatedness.[1][2] The species employs a variety of colony founding strategies, sometimes with single founders and sometimes in groups of variable number.[3] The queen does not use physical dominance to control workers; there is evidence of pheromones being used to suppress other female workers from overtaking queenship.[4]

  1. ^ van der Vecht, J (1941). "The Indo-Australian species of the genus Ropalidia (Icaria) (Hym., Vespidae), first part" (PDF). Treubia. 18: 103–190.
  2. ^ van der Vecht, J (1962). "The Indo-Australian species of the genus Ropalidia (Icaria) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae), second part". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 57: 1–71.
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