Ropalidia romandi
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Ropalidia romandi, also known as the yellow brown paper wasp or the yellow paper wasp. is a species of paper wasp found in Northern and Eastern Australia. R. romandi is a swarm-founding wasp, and manages perennial nests. Its nests are known as "paper bag nests" and have different architectural structures, depending on the substrates from which they are built. The specific name honors Gustave, baron de Romand, a prominent French political figure and amateur entomologist.
Because swarm-founding colonies can contain more than one egg-laying queen, they tend to challenge current kin selection theory. in that they do not meet William D. Hamilton’s rule of haplodiploid eusocial Hymenoptera, in which all the sisters from a single mating of one queen with a parthenogenetically-produced male will share 75% of their genes. This wasp often has multiple strepsipteran endoparasites.
Ropalidia romandi, first named by Élie Jean François Le Guillou in 1841, is in the subfamily Polistinae. Ropalidia is the only genus in Polistinae that contains both independent-founding... Wikipedia →
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| 1 | Brisbane | 🇦🇺 Australia |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow Brown Paper Wasp sighting in Brisbane on a given day, based on 31 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 361st most-seen of the 1083 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January, March and September–October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow Brown Paper Wasp in Brisbane on a given day, against under 5% in February, April–August and November–December, the lowest months.
Only Brisbane, in our data
Brisbane is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Yellow Brown Paper Wasp sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow Brown Paper Wasp is recorded against all the insects logged in Brisbane (31 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
