Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps) of the British Indian Ocean Territory
This is a guide to the Hymenoptera of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The species listed here are primarily those recorded in the Zoological Society London checklist. Additional species have been added from surveys collected through a Darwin Plus project (DPLUS151). This list is not ...more ↓
Yellow Oriental Paper Wasp
Polistes olivaceus is a species of paper wasp native to India and East Asia, but also introduced to East Africa, and Pacific island nations such as the Marquesas Islands, Easter Island, Hawaii, and the Cook Islands, in the South Pacific. In the Cook Islands, its English name is "Yellow Paper-Wasp", while its Cook Island Maori name is "Rango Patia" or other variation depending on ...more ↓
Small Paper Wasps
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 ...more ↓
Subancistrocerus sichelii
China (Sichuan, Yunnan); Mauritius; Seychelles; India; Sri Lanka; Chagos Archipelago; Nepal; Burma; Thailand; Cambodia; Vietnam; Malaysia; Singapore.
