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Issue: Vol. 598 No. 1: 9 Aug. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-08-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.598.1.1
Page range: 1–5
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 4

Protopolybia aliciae, a new polistine social wasp from Brazilian Amazonia (Hym.; Vespidae, Polistinae, Epiponini)

Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, MCT, Av. Perimetral s/n, Campus de Pesquisas, 66040-170, Belém, PA, Brazil
Hymenoptera Vespidae Polistinae Epiponini Protopolybia aliciae new species Brazilian Amazonia

Abstract

A description and photographs of Protopolybia aliciae are presented, a new swarming species of social polistine wasp from the Brazilian state of Pari.

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