Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Author Carpenter, James M. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York, NY 10024, U. S. A. Author Brown, Graham R. 0000-0002-4101-3823 Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, GPO Box 4646, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia. & Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water, Private Mail Bag 44, Winnellie, NT 0822, Australia. & University Fellow, Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia. thynnini @ outlook. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4101 - 3823 thynnini@outlook.com text Zootaxa 2022 2022-12-05 5214 4 451 495 journal article 202625 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1 05dc98be-c3f9-4039-a21d-b285d6059a8c 1175-5326 7397617 80EE5BF7-A183-4089-950E-25DBD65EFCFC trichophthalma Richards Ropalidia trichophthalma Richards, 1978: 54 (nest), 62 (key), 102, female, male (in subgenus Icariola ) - “ Queensland Q2 , Forest road near Ingham” ( holotype female Canberra); also from numerous other localities in Qld. - Cardale, 1985: 217 (in subgenus Icariola ; cat.). - Jeanne, 1991: 203 , 213, 225 (colony population). - Kojima, 1993a: 4 (biology). - Naumann, 1993 , in Naumann et al .: 179 (distr.). - Itô, 1993: 89 , 134 (in subgenus Icariola ; ethology). - Macalintal & Starr, 1996 : tables 1–2 (in subgenus Icariola ; morphology). - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997a: 57 (cat.). - Kojima, 1998: 100 , 218, Figs 625–631 (larva); 1999b: 375 (note on holotype ); 1999c: 383 (key), 387 (distr.), Figs 63–65. - Brown, 2009: 30 (? North Coast ). Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf , (N coastal); Qld., N. T., W. A.; specimens other than from Qld. are believed to be incorrectly labelled.