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 biguttata Bequaert, 1944 ( Figs 37, 38, 39, 40 ) Protopolybia picteti var. biguttata Bequaert, 1944: 116 , 119 ( holotype : 1♀ , Peru , Junin , El Campamiento, Col. Perene (CUIC), examined female specimen from the type locality. Protopolybia biguttata : Richards 1978: 139 , 148; Rasmussen & Asenjo 2009: 49 . Diagnosis . Length of fore wing 4.40–5.12 mm ; humerus distinctly projecting, carina lamellate and recurved forwards at extremity, not extending downwards; metanotal process with apex truncated; propodeum with wide and deep excavated cavity; propodeal valvula distinctly wide anteriorly; species black with few yellow marks; digitus narrow with apical margin rounded ( Fig. 40 ). MALE. Length of fore wing 4.70 mm ; eyes wide, strongly produced inwards; clypeus narrow, longer than wide, with silvery bristles, ventral margin acute; tentorial pit approximately equidistant to eye margin and to the antennal socket; gena narrow; color like female, except by mandible yellow, and narrow mark on outer orbit extending to vertex. Parameral spine narrow, without elongate bristles; basal and apical angle of paramere widened ( Fig. 37 ); digitus narrow ( Fig. 40 ), with apical margin rounded; basal process of digitus narrow and acuminate; cuspis filled with dense and elongated bristles; ventral process of aedeagus approximately lobed, not projecting laterally, strongly sclerotized and laterally serrated ( Fig. 38 and 39 ); preapical region of aedeagus angular ( Fig. 39 ). Material examined . ECUADOR : Napo , 4♀ , 3♂ , 22km N Tena , 19.xii.1990 ( Carpenter & Wenzel ) ( AMNH ) , 1♀ ( MZUSP ) . Distribution . Peru , * Ecuador . Remarks . Specimens from Napo , Ecuador are black, moderately marked with yellow spots. These present the mesoscutum black, the scutellum with a bilobed mark, the metanotum partially yellow, and T2 with three basal yellow spots and one distal yellow band.