Icaria is a genus of
eusocial
Eusociality (from Greek εὖ ''eu'' "good" and social), the highest level of organization of sociality, is defined by the following characteristics: cooperative brood care (including care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generat ...
paper wasps in the
Ropalidiini
Ropalidiini is a tribe of social wasps inhabiting the Afrotropical, Indomalayan and Australasian biogeographical regions.
Genera and selected species
*'' Belonogaster''
**'' Belonogaster juncea'' ( Fabricius, 1781)
**''Belonogaster petiolata' ...
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
, which was later synonymized to
Ropalidia
''Ropalidia'' is a large genus of eusocial paper wasps in the tribe Ropalidiini distributed throughout the Afrotropical, Indomalayan and Australasian biogeographical regions. The genus ''Ropalidia ''is unique because it contains both independent ...
Guérin-Méneville. The former genus contained, among other, the following species:
* ''
Icaria africana''
(Cameron, 1910)
* ''Icaria artifex''
(Smith, 1871)
* ''
Icaria cariniscutis''
Cameron, 1910
* ''
Icaria cayayanensis''
Ashmead, 1905
* ''
Icaria fasciata''
Smith, 1858
* ''Icaria ferruginea''
Horne, ???
* ''
Icaria kohni''
Buysson, 1909
* ''
Icaria pruinosa''
Cameron 1906
* ''
Icaria xanthopoda''
Cameron, 1902
Enemy species
An enemy of ''Icaria'' is the ''
Vespa tropicalis (=V. deusta)'', which will invade and rob ''Icaria'' nests.
[(March, 1919)]
''Economic Entomology: Pamphlets''.
Atlanta: Georgia State Board of Entomology. Volume 128, pp. 165-166. Accessed 30 December 2011.
References
Vespidae
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