Taxonomic revision of the Protopolybia picteti - emortualis species-group (Richards 1978), with descriptions of two new species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae)
Author
Dos Santos Junior, José N. A.
Author
Silveira, Orlando T.
Author
Carpenter, James M.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-01-29
4729
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228
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4729.2.5
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Protopolybia alvarengai
Richards, 1978
Protopolybia alvarengai
Richards, 1978: 139
, 146. (
holotype
:
♀
,
Brasil
: RO, Pimenta Bueno,
xi.1960
(M. Alvarenga) (UFPR- DZUP), examined.
Diagnosis
. Length of fore wing
4.37–4.62 mm
; clypeus wide, with ventral margin approximately rounded; front margin of pronotum distinctly angled a little below the fovea; metanotal process with apex truncated; propodeum with wide and deep excavated cavity, like a central channel; species black to brownish, with few yellow marks; vertex and mesoscutum black; scutellum with two spots, scutellum, metanotum, propodeum and T2 anteriorly yellow.
Material examined
.
BRAZIL
:
Pará
,
4♀
,
Santarém
,
Taperinha
, 1974 (
R
.
L. Jeanne
) (
BMNH
)
,
1♀
,
Belterra
,
23.xi.1993
(
G.C. Venturieri
),
3♀
,
12.xii.1999
(
MPEG
)
.
Distribution
.
Brazil
:
Rondônia
, *Pará;
Colombia
:
Nariño
.