Protopolybia alvarengai Richards, 1978

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 : 230

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4729.2.5

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scientific name

Protopolybia alvarengai Richards, 1978
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Protopolybia alvarengai Richards, 1978 View in CoL

Protopolybia alvarengai Richards, 1978: 139 View in CoL , 146. (holotype: ♀, Brasil: RO, Pimenta Bueno, xi.1960 (M. Alvarenga) (UFPR- DZUP), examined.

Diagnosis. Length of fore wing 4.37–4.62 mm; clypeus wide, with ventral margin approximately rounded; front margin of pronotum distinctly angled a little below the fovea; metanotal process with apex truncated; propodeum with wide and deep excavated cavity, like a central channel; species black to brownish, with few yellow marks; vertex and mesoscutum black; scutellum with two spots, scutellum, metanotum, propodeum and T2 anteriorly yellow.

Material examined. BRAZIL: Pará , 4♀, Santarém, Taperinha, 1974 ( R. L. Jeanne) ( BMNH) , 1♀, Belterra , 23.xi.1993 (G.C. Venturieri), 3♀, 12.xii.1999 ( MPEG) .

Distribution. Brazil: Rondônia, *Pará; Colombia: Nariño.

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

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

MPEG

Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Vespidae

Genus

Protopolybia