Protopolybia panamensis ( Zavattari, 1906 )

Dos Santos Junior, José N. A., Silveira, Orlando T. & Carpenter, James M., 2020, Taxonomic revision of the P. chartergoides species-group of the genus Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae), Zootaxa 4858 (4), pp. 542-554 : 551

Protopolybia panamensis ( Zavattari, 1906)

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Chartergus panamensis Zavattari, 1906: 4 . Holotype: ♀, Panama, Colon (MRSN, Turin), not examined.

Chartergus acutiscutis Cameron, 1907: 188 . Holotype: ♀, Belize (BMNH), examined.

Pseudochartergus panamensis: Richards 1978: 154 , 157; Carpenter & Wenzel 1990: 181, 183.

Protopolybia panamensis: Sarmiento 1994: 359 ; West-Eberhard et al. 1995: 586; Silveira & Carpenter 1996 (1995): 49 (male, Panama).

Diagnosis. Length of fore wing 5.21 mm; eyes glabrous; gena narrow; pronotum and mesoscutum with conspicuous bristles; pronotal carina laterally very developed, angular, however not forming an acute carina; prominence in front of the pronotal fovea developed, but short and low; propodeal valves distinctly widened posteriorly ( Fig. 40 ). Posterior margin of pronotum and prominence in front of the pronotal fovea marked; scutellum and metanotum with extensive yellow spots.

Material examined. BELIZE: 1♀, Belize ( BMNH) .

Distribution. Belize; Colombia; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Honduras; Panama.

Figures

FIGURES 23–40. 23. Protopolybia diligens; 24. P. amarella; 25. P. duckeianus; 26. P. picteti; 27. P. nitida; 28. P. palidibalteatus; 29. P. fuscata; 30. P. fulvotincta; 31. P.nitida; 32. P. acutiscutis; 33. P. chartergoides; 34, 35. P. chartergoides; 36. P. diligens; 37. P. nitida. 38. P. chatergoides; 39. P. duckeianus; 40. P. panamensis. Scale 1.0 mm. mg= median groove; dm= distal margin; pv= propodeal valve; black setae= occipital carina; red setae= spiracles tending to face forward