diff --git a/data/1B/19/9E/1B199E3D80249417FCE7FA93FB8416FD.xml b/data/1B/19/9E/1B199E3D80249417FCE7FA93FB8416FD.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4713dbd77c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/data/1B/19/9E/1B199E3D80249417FCE7FA93FB8416FD.xml @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ + + + +Metapolybia araujoi, a new species of swarming social wasp from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest (Vespidae: Polistinae) + + + +Author + +Somavilla, Alexandre +Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Av. André Araújo, Manaus, AM, Brazil + + + +Author + +Andena, Sérgio Ricardo +Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Museu Zoologia, Divisão de Entomologia, Av. Transnordestina, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil + +text + + +Revista Brasileira de Entomologia + + +2018 + +2018-03-01 + + +62 + + +2 + + +83 +86 + + + + +http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rbe.2018.02.001 + +journal article +10.1016/j.rbe.2018.02.001 +1806-9665 +13195739 + + + + + +Metapolybia araujoi +Somavilla & Andena + +, +new species + + + + +( +Fig. 1 A–E +) + + + + +Diagnosis +: Body color reddish-brown, resembling + +M. suffusa + +, + +M +. +rufata + +and + +M +. +encantata + +. Differing from the previously mentioned species by the blackish scutum, contrasting with the rest of the body; punctures on vertex and clypeus larger and deeper, contiguous, separated by approximately 1.0× their own diameter or less; propodeum with a well-defined concavity and evident striae; first metasomal tergum is filiform and with a vestigial groove apically, in lateral view. + + + + +Female +: Size: 10.0 mm, forewing +7.5 mm +in length. + + +Color +: Reddish-brown species, scutum blackish; margin of pronotum in dorsal view, yellow; scape of antenna brownish, flagellomeres becoming darker, blackish; clypeus, front and vertex blackish, opaque, ventral margin of clypeus yellow; mandible reddish-brown with a yellow spot; tergum II–IV with evanescent yellow apical bands; all sterna with evanescent yellow bands; legs reddish-brown; wings hyaline, venation brown. + + +∗ Corresponding author. + +E-mail: +alexandresomavilla@gmail.com (A. Somavilla). + + + + +Fig. 1. + +Metapolybia araujoi +Somavilla & Andena + +new species +: (A) dorsal view; (B) lateral view; (C) metasoma in lateral view; (D) head front view; (E) anterior and posterior wings. Scale bar = 01 mm. Figures by Agnièle Touret-Alby © MNHN. + + + +Head +: (1) clypeus 1.5 times wider than long, punctures strong, large and deep, separated by approximately 1.0× their own diameter or less; short pubescence covering most of the clypeus, except the tip, clypeus bristles long at apex, being bare on medial and upper region; upper margin separated by less than the width of the antennal socket; lateral margin touching the eyes by more than the antennal socket; (2) interantennal prominence raised, subacute, with a weak medial furrow; (3) frons and vertex covered with yellowish pubescence, punctures large and deep, contiguous, separated by less than 1.0 diameter, giving a rugose aspect; (4) gena 0.80 width of eye, narrowing to mandibular condyle abruptly, covered with yellowish pubescence; punctures large and deep, spaced, separated by about 2.0 diameter; occipital carina present (5) tempora narrowing to vertex; (6) posterior region of head excavated, very strongly emarginate. + + +Mesosoma +: (1) anterior pronotal carina little raised, acute, extending to ventral corner; (2) humeri slightly projected forward, rounded; (3) pretegular carina projecting on upper region, acute, curved, not interrupted; (4) pronotum with punctures large and deep, separated by about 1.0 diameter (5) scutum 1.5 times wider than long; punctures large and deep, separated by 1.0 diameter; (6) mesopleura convex with deep punctures separated by 1.0 diameter, becoming sparser laterally; upper plate about twice longer than wide, dorsal mesepisternal groove very shallow; (7) scutellum slightly concave posteriorly, medial line raised anteriorly, vanishing posteriorly, punctures separated by 1.0 diameter; (8) metanotum moderately concave, punctures scattered; (9) propodeum with few erect hairs and distinct punctures laterally; (10) propodeal concavity deep and well defined, striation evident, extending laterally; (11) opening of propodeal muscle large, rounded; (12) prestigma of the forewing as long as wide, with the tip truncate; sub-marginal cell II narrow. + + +Metasoma +: (1) Tergum I filiform, slightly widened after the prominent spiracles in dorsal view, posteriorly convex in lateral view, angle very produced, punctures very weak, spaced; vestigial groove in apical part, in lateral view; (2) tergum II 1.2 times wider than long; punctures more distinct and strong on posterior fifth; yellowish pubescence; (3) terga III–VI more densely punctured than tergum I; (4) punctures on sterna II–V more evident on posterior apical region. + + +Male +: unknown. + + +Nest +: unknown. + + + + + + +Holotype + +: female +♀ +, +Brazil +, +Pará +, +Adolph Ducke +leg., + +28.02.1902 + +, Museum Paris, France – Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle ( +MNHN +, Paris EY25602). There is no information of a specific locality, only the state and country. + + + + + +Distribution +: +Brazil +: +Pará +. + + + + +Etymology +: We are naming this species according to a label found attached to the specimen by the late O.W. Richards – “ + +M. araujoi +Rich. + +/ +paratype +” ( +Fig. 2 +). + + + + \ No newline at end of file