Taxonomic study of wasp species in the Polybia (Myrapetra) occidentalis group morphologically related to P. scrobalis and P. flavifrons, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae)
Author
Amorim, Danielle C. De A.
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi-MPEG, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Entomologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, CEP: 66077 - 830, Belém, Pará, Brasil.
Author
Dos Santos Junior, José N. A.
Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará-Folha 31, Quadra 07, Lote Especial, s / n. º-Nova Marabá, Marabá-PA, 68507 - 590, São Félix do Xingú, Pará, Brasil.
Author
Carvalho- Filho, Fernando Da S.
0000-0002-2480-3874
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi-MPEG, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Entomologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, CEP: 66077 - 830, Belém, Pará, Brasil.
fernandofilho@museu-goeldi.br
Author
Silveira, Orlando T.
0000-0002-5899-199X
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi-MPEG, Coordenação de Zoologia, Laboratório de Entomologia, Avenida Perimetral, 1901, Terra Firme, CEP: 66077 - 830, Belém, Pará, Brasil.
orlando@museu-goeldi.br
Author
Carpenter, James M.
American Museum of Natural History- 200 Central Park W, New York, NY 10024, USA.
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Zootaxa
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2024-07-11
5477
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537
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5477.5.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5477.5.2
1175-5326
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Polybia flavifrons flavifrons
Smith, 1857
Polybia flavifrons
Smith, 1857: 152
.
Holotype
♀
,
Ecuador
,
Guayaquil
(NHM); examined.
Polybia saussurei
Holmgren, 1868: 440
.
Lectotype
♂
,
Ecuador
,
Puná
(NR, Stockholm)
Diagnosis.
FEMALE. Body covered with distinct setae, propodeum with dense appressed pubescence, first metasomal sternum with numerous distinct setae; gena wide and with a distinct margin; pronotal carina weak; first metasomal tergum relatively elongate for the group, ca. 1.1X longer than mesopleuron height, but wide distally; gena always yellow; clypeus entirely yellow. MALE. According to
Richards (1978)
has color similar as yellowest female; gena narrower; clypeus less angulated below and with less dense silvery pubescence.
Examined material.
EQUADOR
:
Arenillas
,
1♀
20.ii.1984
;
Manabi
,
Portoviejo
,
1♀
22.xii.1971
(
M. Cooper
)
(NHM; photographs)
Distribution.
Equador
.