Protopolybia rotundata Ducke, 1910

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 : 244

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scientific name	Protopolybia rotundata Ducke, 1910
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Protopolybia rotundata Ducke, 1910 View in CoL

Protopolybia rotundata Ducke, 1910: 469 View in CoL , 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 View in CoL , 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) GoogleMaps ; 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.

References

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

Carpenter, J. M. & Van der Vecht, J. (1991) A study of the Vespidae described by William J. Fox (Insecta: Hymenoptera), with assessment of taxonomic implications. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 60, 211 - 241.

Carpenter, J. M. (1999) Taxonomic notes on paper wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). American Museum Novitates, 3259, 1 - 44.

Ducke, A. (1910) Revision des guepes sociales polygames d'Amerique. Annales Historico Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 8, 449 - 544.

Nascimento, P. T. R. & Overal, W. L. (1979) Contribuicoes entomologicas de Adolpho Ducke: Taxonomia e Bibliografia. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Nova Series, Zoology, 95, 1 - 17.

Overal, W. L. (1978) Designacao de lectotipos de onze especies de vespas sociais descritas por Adolpho Ducke, e notas sobre a colecao Ducke (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, 94, 1 - 14.

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