Protopolybia emortualis (de Saussure, 1855)

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 : 236-237

Protopolybia emortualis (de Saussure, 1855)

( Figs. 21, 22, 23 )

Chartergus emortualis de Saussure, 1855: 374 (holotype: ♀, Brazil: Santarém (BMNH); examined).

Chartergus emortualis: Smith 1857: 135 ; Dalla Torre: 1894: 168; 1904: 85; Ducke 1904: 326.

Chartergus rufiventris: Ducke 1904: 325 , 329, 335. (lectotype: ♀, Brasil, Pará, 30.vii.1899 (Ducke) (MNHN)); examined; para- lectotype 1♀, same data as lectotype; not examined.

Protopolybia rufiventris: Ducke 1905a: 18 ; 1905b: 662, 673; 1907:166

Protopolybia emortualis: Ducke 1907: 165 , 166; 1910: 468, 470; 1914: 309; 1918: 324; Bequaert 1944a: 101, 115; 1944b: 265, 270; Richards 1978: 138, 144; Overal 1978: 11; Carpenter & Wenzel 1989: 179, 181, 184; Sarmiento 1994: 359; Carpenter et al. 2001: 179, 180; Rasmussen & Asenjo 2009: 49.

Charterginus rufoornatus Cameron 1912: 220 (lectotype: ♀, Guyana (BMNH); examined).

Charterginus rufoornatus: Richards & Richards 1951: 22 ; Richards 1978: 144; Carpenter 1999: 18.

Protopolybia laboriosa: Bodkin 1918: 308 . (Misidentification).

Protopolybia rufo-ornata: Bequaert 1944a: 131 ; 1944b: 270.

Chartergus rufiventris: Richards 1978: 144 ; Nascimento & Overal 1979: 9.

Diagnosis. Length of fore wing 5.0– 5.62 mm; occipital carina distinct, extending over three forths of the height of gena in lateral view, terminating before mandible articulation, gena wide, approximately as wide as lower lobe of eye in lateral view ( Fig. 21 ); clypeus wide, with ventral margin acute; humerus short and roundly truncate, pronotal carina with lamella reduced. Metanotal process with apex truncated; propodeum deeply excavated above the valvula ( Fig. 22 ), propodeal valvula basally triangular ( Fig. 23 ). Color brown to reddish, moderately marked with yellow; scutellum and metanotum partially yellow, propodeum with paired dorsal marks. Paramere dorsally smoothly rounded.

Material examined. COLOMBIA: Colombia amazônica , 12♀, xi.1912 (Ducke) ( MPEG) ; BRAZIL: Amapá, 3♀, Amapari , Tucano-2, 11–15.xi.1993 (N. Bittencourt) , 1♀ (W. França) ( MPEG) ; Pará, 1♀, 02.x.1900 (Ducke) , 20♀, Melgaço , Caxiuanã-ECFPn, 24.iii.1998 (O. Silveira & J. Pena) , 11♀, Belém, Mocambo , 03.ix.1977 (W.L. Overal) ( MPEG) ; 1♀, Belém, Utinga , 12.xii.1978 (F.F. Ramos) ( BMNH) ; 1♀, Bragança, Viveda Vitória 1°11`10” S 46°40`21”, 24.xi.2001 (Amber Reed) , 1♀, Óbidos , 05.i.1905 (Ducke) ( MPEG) ; 1♀, 22.xii.1904 (Ducke) ( BMNH) ; 1♀, 16.vii.1949? ( MZUSP) ; Amazonas , 1♀, Santo Antônio do Içá , 17.viii.1906, Tefé , 1♀, 25.ix.1904, 1♂, 27.ix.1904 (Ducke), 1♀, R. Japurá , 16.ix.1904 , 1♀, R. Javari , 15.vii.1906 (Ducke) ; SURINAM: 2♀, 16.vii.1950? ( MZUSP) ; PERU: Iquitos , 2♀, 08.viii.1906 (Ducke) ( MPEG) ; 2♀, Tingo Maria , 1.xi.1947 (W. Weyrauchi); GUY- ANA : 1♀ (G.E. Bodkin), 1914 ( BMNH) .

Distribution. Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Suriname, French Guiana, Guyana.

Figures

FIGURES 21–26. 21, 22, 23. Protopolybia emortualis. pv, propodeal valve; 24, 25, 26. Protopolybia fulvotincta.