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 rotundata Ducke, 1910 Protopolybia rotundata Ducke, 1910: 469 , 472. ( lectotype : ♀ , French Guiana , La Mana (MNHN), not examined: paralectotype : 1♀ , same data as lectotype (MPEG), examined). Polybia pumila Fox : 1898: 449 (part.). Protopolybia rotundata : Richards 1978: 138 , 145; Overal 1978: 11 ; Nascimento & Overal 1979: 11 ; Carpenter & van der Vecht 1991: 215; Carpenter 1999: 18 . Protopolybia pumila var. rotundata : Bequaert 1944a: 123 , 126; 1944b: 270. Diagnosis . Length of fore wing 4.35–4.37 mm ; humerus short and roundly truncate, carina with lamella reduced; pronotal fovea obsolete, appearing like an integument puncture; scrobal groove not strong; metanotal process with apex truncated; propodeum with wide and deeply excavated cavity; species black with few yellow spots. Scutellum yellow, posterior margin of T1 and T2 each with yellow spot. Material examined . FRENCH GUYANE : road to Kaw , 20♀ , 300m , 4°32`N 52°10`W , 2.x.1996 ( Wenzel & Carpenter ) ( AMNH ) ; BRAZIL : Pará , 2♀ , Belterra , 13.xii.1999 ( G.C. Venturieri ) ( MPEG ) , Pará , 1♀ , Serra de Cara- jás, Ápice Oeste , 10.07.2014 ( G.C. Ferreira ) ( MPEG ) ; COLOMBIA : 1♀ , Narino , Barbacoas , 20.iii.1974 (M. Coo- per) . Distribution . French Guiana ; Brazil : Mato Grosso , Pará; * Colombia .