Protopolybia wheeleri 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 : 245

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

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scientific name

Protopolybia wheeleri Bequaert, 1944
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Protopolybia wheeleri Bequaert, 1944 View in CoL

Protopolybia picteti var. wheeleri Bequaert, 1944a: 121 View in CoL . (holotype: ♀, Panama, Frijoles, Canal Zone (MCZ), not examined; paratype: 1♀, same data as holotype (BMNH), 1♀ (AMNH), examined).

Protopolybia wheeleri: Richards 1978: 139 View in CoL , 146.

Diagnosis. Length of fore wing 4.50–4.62 mm; humerus distinctly projecting, carina lamellate and recurved forwards at extremity, not extending downwards; pronotal fovea wide and deep; metanotal process with apex truncated; propodeum with a wide and shallow cavity; species black to brownish, richly marked with yellow spots; mesoscutum with four stripes; T2 with apical band and three proximal spots, central spot being pyriform.

Material examined. PANAMA: Frijoles , 1♀, Canal Zone ( AMNH); 1♀ ( BMNH); Champion, 87♀, Tolé (God- man-Salvin) .

Distribution. Nicaragua, Panama.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Vespidae

Genus

Protopolybia

Loc

Protopolybia wheeleri Bequaert, 1944

Dos Santos Junior, José N. A., Silveira, Orlando T. & Carpenter, James M. 2020
2020
Loc

Protopolybia wheeleri:

Richards, O. W. 1978: 139
1978
Loc

Protopolybia picteti var. wheeleri

Bequaert, J. 1944: 121
1944
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