Protopolybia biguttata 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 : 232

Protopolybia biguttata Bequaert, 1944

( Figs 37, 38, 39, 40 )

Protopolybia picteti var. biguttata Bequaert, 1944: 116 , 119 (holotype: 1♀, Peru, Junin, El Campamiento, Col. Perene (CUIC), examined female specimen from the type locality.

Protopolybia biguttata: Richards 1978: 139 , 148; Rasmussen & Asenjo 2009: 49.

Diagnosis. Length of fore wing 4.40–5.12 mm; humerus distinctly projecting, carina lamellate and recurved forwards at extremity, not extending downwards; metanotal process with apex truncated; propodeum with wide and deep excavated cavity; propodeal valvula distinctly wide anteriorly; species black with few yellow marks; digitus narrow with apical margin rounded ( Fig. 40 ).

MALE. Length of fore wing 4.70 mm; eyes wide, strongly produced inwards; clypeus narrow, longer than wide, with silvery bristles, ventral margin acute; tentorial pit approximately equidistant to eye margin and to the antennal socket; gena narrow; color like female, except by mandible yellow, and narrow mark on outer orbit extending to vertex. Parameral spine narrow, without elongate bristles; basal and apical angle of paramere widened ( Fig. 37 ); digitus narrow ( Fig. 40 ), with apical margin rounded; basal process of digitus narrow and acuminate; cuspis filled with dense and elongated bristles; ventral process of aedeagus approximately lobed, not projecting laterally, strongly sclerotized and laterally serrated ( Fig. 38 and 39 ); preapical region of aedeagus angular ( Fig. 39 ).

Material examined. ECUADOR: Napo, 4♀, 3♂, 22km N Tena , 19.xii.1990 (Carpenter & Wenzel) ( AMNH) , 1♀ ( MZUSP) .

Distribution. Peru, * Ecuador.

Remarks. Specimens from Napo, Ecuador are black, moderately marked with yellow spots. These present the mesoscutum black, the scutellum with a bilobed mark, the metanotum partially yellow, and T2 with three basal yellow spots and one distal yellow band.

Figures

FIGURES 33–44. 33, 34, 35, 36. Protopolybia bella; 37, 38, 39, 40. Protopolybia biguttata; 41, 42, 43, 44. Protopolybia fulvotincta. 33, 37, 41. Parameres of the male genitalia. 34, 35, 38, 39, 42, 43. Aedeagus in dorsal and lateral view. 36, 40, 44. Volsella of male genitalia in lateral view. Scale 0.2mm.