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FAMILY VESPIDAE,
subfamily Polistinae
- This page contains pictures and information about the Small Brown Paper Wasps in
genus Ropalidia that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Wasps in this genus build vertical long nests. They are usually dark dull
brown in colours. Most species make simple, stalked, uncovered combs similar
to the Genus Polistes. Some other
species make much larger nests with many combs enclosed in an envelope. Some
others nest inside tree hollows.
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- We found quit a number of different species in this genus in
Brisbane.
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Subgenus Icariola
- White-faced Brown Paper Wasp
- Ropalidia plebeiana, body length 15mm
- This paper wasp is mostly red-brown in colour with white rings around
thorax and abdomen. They build single irregular disc form paper nest which is
about 100mm in diameter. Pleas check this page
for more information.
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- Disc-nest Brown Paper Wasp
  - Ropalidia gregaria, length 10mm
- We found this Disc-nest Wasps nest on road side hanging from a small pine
tree about 1.5 meters above ground. The nest is flat in one layer. The wasps
are brown in colour with yellow rectangular patterns on thorax, with two
segments of yellow band on abdomen. Notice that some nest cells are
empty, some are with larvae or pupa inside. Please click here
for more pictures and information.
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- Stick-nest Brown Paper Wasp
- Ropalidia revolutionalis, length 10mm
- Their head, thorax, abdomen and wings are all in red-brown colour, with darker
band on abdomen. Usually their nests consist of several adjacent combs. Each
comb is about 100mm long, consist of two columns of cells. They are common
in Brisbane gardens and backyards. They will attack and sting if nest are
disturbed. More information please click here.
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- Dark-faced Brown Paper Wasp
 - Ropalidia gracilenta, body length 15mm
- This paper wasp is mostly red-brown in colour with white rings around
thorax and abdomen. They build single narrow long paper nest. Please
check this page for more information.
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- Tree Brown Paper Wasp
- Ropalidia socialistica, body length 12mm
- This species nest in hollow of living trees. The Tree Brown Paper Wasps
are bright dark brown in colour. There are six yellow spots on thorax. There
is the yellow dot at the wing-base. There is the wide yellow band on each abdominal
segment. Please check this page
for more information.
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Subgenus Icarielia
- Yellow Brown Paper Wasp
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- Ropalidia romandi, body length 12mm
- We found this Yellow Paper Wasp near Bulimba Creek in Wishart. This
wasp is medium in size, with more yellow colour than the other paper wasps.
We have more information and pictures in this page.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, pp 980.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus
& Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p296.
- 3. Paper
Wasp Fact Sheet - by Chris Burwell, Queensland Museum, 2006.
- 4. What wasp is that? - An interactive identification guide to the Australasian families of Hymenoptera, 2007.
- 5. Northern Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
- 6. Subfamily Polistinae
- Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources Study.
- 7. The
Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera : Vespidae) - Richards, OW
(1978), Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 26
, 1–132.
- 8. OBSERVATIONS ON THE NESTING BEHAVIOUR OF THREE SPECIES OF ROPALIDIA GUÉRIN-MÉNEVILLE (HYMENOPTERA: VESPIDAE)
- AW Hook AND HE EVANS - Australian Journal of Entomology, 1982 - Wiley Online Library.
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