title: Icaria (wasp)
text: # Icaria (wasp)
  
  Icaria is a genus of eusocial paper wasps in the Ropalidiini tribe, which was later synonymized to Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville. The former genus contained, among other, the following species:
  
  * Icaria africana (Cameron, 1910)
  * Icaria artifex (Smith, 1871)
  * Icaria cariniscutis Cameron, 1910
  * Icaria cayayanensis Ashmead, 1905
  * Icaria fasciata Smith, 1858
  * Icaria ferruginea Horne, ???
  * Icaria kohni Buysson, 1909
  * Icaria pruinosa Cameron 1906
  * Icaria xanthopoda Cameron, 1902
  
  ## Enemy species
  
  An enemy of Icaria is the Vespa tropicalis (=V. deusta), which will invade and rob Icaria nests.
  
  