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Small Brown Paper Wasps
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 and swarm-founding species. Ropalidia romandi is one of the swarm founding species, meaning that new nests are founded by a large group of workers with a smaller number of inseminated females (egg-laying queens), while Ropalidia revolutionalis is independent-founding, meaning that each nest is founded...
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Ropalidia marginata
complexRopalidia marginata
Ropalidia sumatrae
speciesRopalidia sumatrae
Ropalidia stigma
speciesRopalidia stigma
Stick-nest Brown Paper Wasp
speciesRopalidia revolutionalis
Yellow Brown Paper Wasp
speciesRopalidia romandi
Ropalidia fasciata
speciesRopalidia fasciata
White-faced Brown Paper Wasp
speciesRopalidia plebeiana
Ropalidia distigma
speciesRopalidia distigma
Ropalidia jacobsoni
speciesRopalidia jacobsoni
Ropalidia flavobrunnea
speciesRopalidia flavobrunnea
Ropalidia variegata
speciesRopalidia variegata
Tree Brown Paper Wasp
speciesRopalidia socialistica
Ropalidia cyathiformis
speciesRopalidia cyathiformis
Ropalidia rufoplagiata
speciesRopalidia rufoplagiata
Ropalidia ornaticeps
speciesRopalidia ornaticeps
Ropalidia hongkongensis
speciesRopalidia hongkongensis
Ropalidia erythrospila
speciesRopalidia erythrospila
Ropalidia timida
speciesRopalidia timida
Ropalidia taiwana
speciesRopalidia taiwana
Ropalidia flavopicta
speciesRopalidia flavopicta
Ropalidia guttatipennis
speciesRopalidia guttatipennis
Ropalidia galimatia
speciesRopalidia galimatia
Ropalidia merina
speciesRopalidia merina
Ropalidia parartifex
speciesRopalidia parartifex
Ropalidia fraterna
speciesRopalidia fraterna
Ropalidia shestakowi
speciesRopalidia shestakowi
Ropalidia tomentosa
speciesRopalidia tomentosa
Ropalidia capensis
speciesRopalidia capensis
Ropalidia cauponae
speciesRopalidia cauponae
Ropalidia cincinnata
speciesRopalidia cincinnata
Ropalidia nobilis
speciesRopalidia nobilis
Dark-faced Brown Paper Wasp
speciesRopalidia gracilenta
Disc-nest Brown Paper Wasp
speciesRopalidia gregaria
Ropalidia antennata
speciesRopalidia antennata
Ropalidia horni
speciesRopalidia horni
Ropalidia bicolorata
speciesRopalidia bicolorata
Ropalidia aethiopica
speciesRopalidia aethiopica
Ropalidia unidentata
speciesRopalidia unidentata
Ropalidia impetuosa
speciesRopalidia impetuosa
Ropalidia phalansterica
speciesRopalidia phalansterica
Ropalidia subclavata
speciesRopalidia subclavata
Ropalidia mathematica
speciesRopalidia mathematica
Ropalidia jemmae
speciesRopalidia jemmae
Ropalidia cincta
speciesRopalidia cincta
Ropalidia favulorum
speciesRopalidia favulorum
Ropalidia regina
speciesRopalidia regina
Ropalidia anarchica
speciesRopalidia anarchica
Ropalidia saussurei
speciesRopalidia saussurei
Ropalidia grandidieri
speciesRopalidia grandidieri
Ropalidia africana
speciesRopalidia africana
Ropalidia flavoviridis
speciesRopalidia flavoviridis
Ropalidia dubia
speciesRopalidia dubia
Ropalidia variabilis
speciesRopalidia variabilis
Ropalidia darwini
speciesRopalidia darwini
Ropalidia linearecta
speciesRopalidia linearecta
Ropalidia ranavali
speciesRopalidia ranavali
Ropalidia clavata
speciesRopalidia clavata
Ropalidia nigrescens
speciesRopalidia nigrescens
Ropalidia tenuipilosa
speciesRopalidia tenuipilosa
Ropalidia minor
speciesRopalidia minor
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 120832.