Protopolybia wheeleri Bequaert, 1944

Dos Santos Junior, José N. A., Silveira, Orlando T. & Carpenter, James M., 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Protopolybia picteti - emortualis species-group (Richards 1978), with descriptions of two new species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae), Zootaxa 4729 (2), pp. 228-248 : 245

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scientific name	Protopolybia wheeleri Bequaert, 1944
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Protopolybia wheeleri Bequaert, 1944 View in CoL

Protopolybia picteti var. wheeleri Bequaert, 1944a: 121 View in CoL . (holotype: ♀, Panama, Frijoles, Canal Zone (MCZ), not examined; paratype: 1♀, same data as holotype (BMNH), 1♀ (AMNH), examined).

Protopolybia wheeleri: Richards 1978: 139 View in CoL , 146.

Diagnosis. Length of fore wing 4.50–4.62 mm; humerus distinctly projecting, carina lamellate and recurved forwards at extremity, not extending downwards; pronotal fovea wide and deep; metanotal process with apex truncated; propodeum with a wide and shallow cavity; species black to brownish, richly marked with yellow spots; mesoscutum with four stripes; T2 with apical band and three proximal spots, central spot being pyriform.

Material examined. PANAMA: Frijoles , 1♀, Canal Zone ( AMNH); 1♀ ( BMNH); Champion, 87♀, Tolé (God- man-Salvin) .

Distribution. Nicaragua, Panama.

References

Bequaert, J. (1944 a) A revision of Protopolybia Ducke, a genus of neotropical social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Revista de Entomologia, 15, 97 - 134.

Richards, O. W. (1978) The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 580 pp.