Charterginus fuscatus Fox, 1898: 459
Charterginus fuscatus Dalla Torre 1904: 85
Carpenter & Van der Vecht 1991: 222
Chartergus fuscatus Ducke 1904: 325
Pseudochartergus fuscatus : Ducke 1910: 466
Bequaert 1938: 105
Jeanne 1970: 55
Richards 1978: 154
Carpenter & Wenzel 1990: 180
Wenzel 1991: 515
Protopolybia fuscatus : Carpenter & Van der Vecht 1991: 222
Sarmiento 1994: 359
Santos-Junior et al. 2015: 153
Taxonomic revision of the P. chartergoides species-group of the genus Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae)
Dos Santos Junior, José N. A.
Silveira, Orlando T.
Carpenter, James M.
Zootaxa
2020
2020-10-02
4858
4
542
554
4N6P4
(Fox, 1898)
Fox
1898
[151,549,1727,1754]
Insecta
Vespidae
Protopolybia
Animalia
Hymenoptera
4
546
Arthropoda
species
fuscata
( Figs. 3, 4, 15, 16, 17, 18, 29)
Charterginus fuscatus Fox, 1898: 459. Holotype: ♀, Brazil: Mararú(CM, Pittsburgh), examined. Charterginus fuscatus Dalla Torre 1904: 85; Carpenter & Van der Vecht 1991: 222. Chartergus fuscatus Ducke 1904: 325, 329, 338. Pseudochartergus fuscatus: Ducke 1910: 466; Bequaert 1938: 105; Jeanne 1970: 55, 56, 60; Richards 1978: 154, 155; Overal 1978: 11; Carpenter & Wenzel 1990: 180, 183; Wenzel 1991: 515; Downing 1991: 548 Protopolybia fuscatus: Carpenter & Van der Vecht 1991: 222; Sarmiento 1994: 359; Santos-Junior et al.2015: 153, 154, 168, 174, 182.
Diagnosis. Length of fore wing 5.16 mm; eyes glabrous; gena narrow, about 0.41 × eye width; occipital carina developed only on upper quarter of the head ( Fig. 29); body almost completely covered by minute bristles; pronotal carina laterally very developed, angular ( Fig. 3); prominence in front of the pronotal fovea developed, high ( Fig. 3); pronotal fovea distinct, wide and deep; mesoscutum without conspicuous bristles. Metanotum short, metanotal process with apex narrowly rounded ( Fig. 4); propodeal valves narrow. Color black with few marks yellow on front and gena. Apical angle of paramere narrow (Fig. 15), apex of aedeagus approximately truncated in dorsal view (Fig. 17).
Redescription. FEMALE. Length of fore wing 5.16 mm; clypeus narrow, approximately as long as wide (HClp=0.91; MxWClp=0.81;TeW=0.63; MiWClp = 0.72 mm), ventral margin narrowly subtruncated; tentorial pit closer to antennal socket than to eye margin; interantennal area relatively wide, approximately 2 × diameter of antennal socket; mandibles relatively short, with length 0.54 × times distance between eyes at vertex; gena very narrow, about 0.41 × eye width; occipital carina developed only on upper quarter of the head; pronotal carina laterally very developed, angular; prominence in front of the pronotal fovea developed, high; pronotal fovea distinct, wide and deep ( Fig. 3); length of mesoscutum 1.03 × its width; scrobal groove obsolete; metanotum triangular, short, length of median axis 0.56 × width of central disk, metanotal process with apex narrowly rounded ( Fig. 4); propodeum with wide and shallow cavity; T1 sessile, distinctly wider than long, approximately as wide as T2. Frons, mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum and propodeum with sparse micropunctation and deeper and stronger mesopunctation; T1–T5 with mesopunctation strong and deep; clypeus with short golden bristles, except on ventral margin, which has elongated bristles; eyes with small sparse bristles; mesoscutum without conspicuous bristles; propodeum with short and sparse bristles. Color black, scape and pedicel ventrally brown, antennomeres and mandibles black to brown; clypeus almost entirely, inner orbit with narrow yellow band which extends to the ocular sinus, outer orbit with narrow yellow band which extends to the occiput; tegulae partially brown, propodeum without dorsal marks; T1–T5 black. Legs black; wings hyaline, venation brown. MALE. Length of fore wing 5.58 mm; eyes wide, strongly produced inwards; clypeus narrow, longer than wide, with silvery and long bristles, ventral margin little produced and subtruncated; tentorial pit closer to eye margin than to antennal socket; gena very narrow; color like female. Genitalia.Parameral spine without elongate bristles; basal angle of paramere widened, apical angle narrow (Fig. 15); digitus wide with apical margin approximately rounded, without long bristles; basal process acuminate (Fig. 18); cuspis strongly covered by long bristles; ventral process of aedeagus laterally projecting, strongly sclerotized and weakly serrated (Fig. 16); preapical region of aedeagus not angular in lateral view (Fig. 16); apex approximately truncated in dorsal view (Fig. 17).
Material examined. BOLIVIA: Beni, 1♀, Rurenabaque, 270m, 18.iv.1979( M. Cooper); La Paz, 1♀, Rio, San Buenaventura, 270m, 22.iv.1979( M. Cooper) ( BMNH); BRAZIL: Pará, 9♀, Belém, Utinga, 30.xi.1967( R. L. Jeanne), 3♀, 26.iv.1901(Ducke), 1♀, Serra Norte, Serraria, 20.vi,1986 ( M.F. Torres), 1♀, Belterra, 06.i.2000( G.C. Venturieri) ( MPEG); 1♀, 16.742 ( MZUSP); COLOMBIA: Valle, 1♀, 1♂, Tulua, 25.ii.1976( M.J.W. Eberhardt); ECUADOR: Napo, 1♀, Limonocha, 280m, 14.vii.1977( C.W. Ruttenmeyer& R. Chadab) ( BMNH); PERU: Loreto, 7♀, 80kmNE Iquitos, 24.xii.1990( Carpenter& Wenzel), 6♂, Rio Sucusariat Napo, 25.xii.1990( AMNH).
Distribution. Bolivia: Beni; Brazil; Pará; Colombia: Boyaca; Ecuador; Peru.
Remarks. Since the synonym proposed by Carpenter & Wenzel (1990)and according to article 31.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999), in which a species name is a Latin or latinized adjective or participle in the nominative singular, it must agree in gender with the generic name with which it is at any time combined, the specific epithet fuscatusis now treated as fuscata.
3034559304
[381,538,1832,1857]
CM
Brazil
Mararu
4
546
1
1
holotype
3034559309
[446,1322,1267,1293]
1979-04-18
M. Cooper & La Paz
Bolivia
270
Rurenabaque
5
547
1
1
Beni
3034559306
1979-04-22
BMNH
M. Cooper
Bolivia
270
San Buenaventura
Rio
5
547
1
1
Beni
3034559333
[841,1010,1303,1329]
Para
Brazil
BRAZIL
5
547
1
Beni
3034559352
1967-11-30
R
L. Jeanne
Brazil
Utinga
Belem
5
547
9
9
Beni
3034559358
[528,1099,1339,1365]
M. F. Torres
Brazil
Serraria
Serra Norte
5
547
1
1
Beni
3034559328
2000-01-06
MPEG
G. C. Venturieri
Brazil
Belterra
5
547
1
1
Beni
3034559366
[396,649,1375,1401]
MZUSP
Brazil
5
547
1
1
Beni
3034559346
[663,889,1375,1401]
Valle
Colombia
COLOMBIA
5
547
1
Beni
3034559324
[903,1433,1374,1402]
1976-02-25
M. J. W. Eberhardt
Colombia
Tulua
5
547
2
1
1
Beni
3034559347
[151,1259,1411,1438]
1977-07-14
R, BMNH
C. W. Ruttenmeyer & Chadab
Ecuador
280
Limonocha
5
547
1
1
Napo
3034559302
1990-12-24
Carpenter & Wenzel
Peru
80 km NE Iquitos
5
547
7
7
Loreto
3034559319
[803,1347,1446,1473]
1990-12-25
AMNH
Peru
Napo
Rio Sucusari
5
547
6
6
Loreto