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 2 228 248 journal article 24217 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.2.5 0e932262-6e5a-477c-ad0f-32c1feb84725 1175-5326 3632610 D7BA9B46-A096-4382-AF1A-8132F2A07012 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 .