Parapolybia

Parapolybia is a genus of paper wasp of the Ropalidiini tribe in the sub-family Polistinae of the family Vespidae which contains five species which are found from Iran in the west to Melanesia in the east.[2]

Parapolybia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Polistinae
Tribe: Ropalidiini
Genus: Parapolybia
Saussure, 1854[1]
Type species
Parapolybia indica Saussure, 1854[1]
Species
  • Parapolybia escalerae (Meade-Waldo, 1911)
  • Parapolybia indica Saussure, 1854
  • Parapolybia nodosa Vecht, 1966
  • Parapolybia persica (Meade-Waldo, 1911)
  • Parapolybia varia (Fabricius, 1787)

References
  1. Phong Huy Pham (2014). "A Checklist of Ropalidiini Wasps of Indochina". Arch. Biol. Sci., Belgrade. 66 (3): 1061–1074. doi:10.2298/ABS1403061P.
  2. "Taxonomy for Parapolybia". insectoid.info. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
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