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gena is narrower and fore and mid coxae yellow beneath.
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),
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,
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, PESPMG,
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,
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(
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,
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,
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. Jordão,
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(L. T. F., Papavero,
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. Silva, Zanettin)
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base of
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,
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810.vii.64 (
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.
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<paragraph id="8B9AAA64FFBAFFC1FF3E5B0C69A5FB61" blockId="10.[151,1438,638,1996]" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">
<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FF3E5B0C681BFBB9" bold="true" box="[199,345,1106,1132]" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">Distribution</emphasis>
.
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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:
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,
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, Distrito Federal,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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.
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<subSubSection id="C33FF9EFFFBAFFC1FF3E5BE06B66F819" pageId="10" pageNumber="547" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B9AAA64FFBAFFC1FF3E5BE06CD5FABD" blockId="10.[151,1438,638,1996]" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">
<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FF3E5BE06876FB0D" bold="true" box="[199,308,1214,1240]" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">Remarks</emphasis>
. In listing the types of
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<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FDC45BE16B80FB0D" box="[573,706,1214,1240]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">P. f. hecuba</emphasis>
,
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mixed the respective locality data between the
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(Theresopolis) and
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(Humboldt, Santa Catherina; see
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), saying that the
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was from Theresopolis (= Teresópolis), state of
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, southern
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. Teresópolis is actually a locality in the “Serra do Mar” in the state of
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, while “Humboldt” is an old name of the city of Corupá, in the state of
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. So, the
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of
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<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FD3D5A116A72FABD" box="[708,816,1358,1384]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">P. hecuba</emphasis>
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is from the state of
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, not
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8B9AAA64FFBAFFC1FF3E5A2C6B7AF978" blockId="10.[151,1438,638,1996]" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">
<bibRefCitation id="EFB4D795FFBAFFC1FF3E5A2C68EAFA59" author="Richards, O. W." box="[199,424,1394,1420]" pageId="10" pageNumber="547" refId="ref26791" refString="Richards, O. W. (1978) The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 580 pp." type="book" year="1978">Richards (1978: 98)</bibRefCitation>
remarked his previous identification mistakes regarding the 1951 type series of
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<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FAD65A2C69AAFA65" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">Polybia f. hecuba</emphasis>
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saying “…
<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FE945AC86BB7FA65" box="[365,757,1430,1456]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">of the series from which subspecies</emphasis>
hecuba
<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FCA85AC96A55FA01" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">
was described, the
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and the one from
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:
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, Castro belong here, the others are P. o.
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</emphasis>
”. Actually, his 1978 concept of the taxon morphology is very different from that of the 1951 description, which practically only mentioned color pattern, and the shape of the first metasomal tergum to diagnose subspecies
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<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FD2C595C6A64F9C9" box="[725,806,1538,1564]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">hecuba</emphasis>
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from
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<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FC92595D6AB6F9C9" box="[875,1012,1538,1564]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">P. parvulina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The type examined by O. T. Silveira in the NHM agrees with
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concept,
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with the pronotal carina practically absent, frons and nearly all the body covered by outstanding bristles, color pattern dark with few yellow marks. So, we must assume that the wide geographical distribution reported by
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for
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<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FC9E59306AFAF95D" box="[871,952,1646,1672]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">hecuba</emphasis>
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is based on his more recent concept of the taxon as a subspecies of
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<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FE5259CD6B73F979" box="[427,561,1682,1708]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">P. flavifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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In the present study, we examined ten specimens from
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(
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and
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) and
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which agree with the previously observed
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specimen and with the description in
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. The subspecies described by
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and revised by
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, especially the forms occurring in central and southern
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forms a coherent taxon, clearly different from
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P. f.
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</emphasis>
or
<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FC4A587D6D11F8E9" box="[947,1107,1826,1852]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">P. f. barbatula</emphasis>
, and we here consider it as a valid species. However, we leave open the question whether all the forms reported by
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from so many places in South America up to
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indeed are part of a single species. The distribution pattern reported for
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<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FF6E58D16846F87D" box="[151,260,1934,1960]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">P. hecuba</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is very different from the other two forms of
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<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FCFC58D16AC9F87D" box="[773,907,1934,1960]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">P. flavifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and quite interestingly
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<emphasis id="B9517676FFBAFFC1FB6558D16C4BF87D" box="[1180,1289,1934,1960]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="547">P. hecuba</emphasis>
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has not been recorded from Brazilian Amazonia.
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