Ropalidiini is a
tribe
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of
social
Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not.
Etymology
The word "social" derives from ...
wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. Th ...
s inhabiting the
Afrotropical,
Indomalayan
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Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...
and
Australasia
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n biogeographical regions.
Genera and selected species
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Belonogaster''
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Belonogaster juncea''
( Fabricius, 1781)
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Belonogaster petiolata
''Belonogaster petiolata'' is a species of primitively eusocial wasp that dwells in southern Africa, in temperate or subhumid climate zones. This wasp species has a strong presence in South Africa and has also been seen in northern Johannesburg. ...
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( Degeer, 1778)
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Icaria
Icaria, also spelled Ikaria ( el, Ικαρία), is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 nautical miles (19 km) southwest of Samos. According to tradition, it derives its name from Icarus, the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology, who was be ...
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Parapolybia''
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Polybioides''
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Polybioides raphigastra''
( Saussure, 1854)
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Polybioides tabidus''
(Fabricius, 1781)
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Ropalidia''
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Ropalidia marginata
''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. The species employs a variety of colony foundi ...
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Ropalidia ornaticeps''
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Ropalidia plebeiana
''Ropalidia plebeiana'' is a eusocial temperate paper wasp. It is unique, as it is the only temperate wasp in the typically tropical Ropalidia genus. ''R. plebeiana'' is widely distributed in eastern Australia, and recently have been found maki ...
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Ropalidia revolutionalis''
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Ropalidia romandi''
External links
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Vespidae
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