Chartergus metanotalis Richards 1978
Creators: name: Somavilla, Alexandre
name: Aragão, Marcos
name: Barroso, Paulo Cézar Salgado
name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Menezes, Rodolpho Santos Telles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Chartergus
Chartergus metanotalis

description: Chartergus metanotalis Richards, 1978
Fig. 3A–H, 4, 5
Chartergus metanotalis Richards, 1978, Soc. Wasps Am.: 132 (key), 135, fig. 70, female, male—“ BRAZIL: MT, base camp, 12°50’S, 51°47’W ” (holotype female Rio de Janeiro); also from elsewhere in Mato Grosso, Goiás, Acre, Pará; and Ecuador.—Almeida and Castro, 1991, Acta Biol. Par., Curitiba 20: 43 (note on type material).— Sarmiento, 1994, Rev. Biol. Trop. 42 (1/2): 359 (Colombia: Amazonas; list).— Garcete-Barrett, 1999, Avispas Soc. Parag.: 30, fig.
Diagnosis. Clypeus wider than long, more transverse; clypeus touching the eyes for an extension equal than width of antennal socket; midlength gena equal to wider than eye; genal margin usually scarcely sinuate below middle, ventrally bending upwards and running in an almost straight line towards mandibles; humeri pronounced; pronotum with apical whitish yellow band, usually incomplete and stronger in the middle; pronotal keel with a whitish yellow band; without pronotal fovea; scrobal furrow with more or less regular carinae metanotum compressed; central tubercle of metanotum stronger; metanotum nearly always entirely black or with small yellow spots on the sides; first metasomal segment wider than long; second metasomal segment as long as wide. Chartergus metanotalis is structurally very close to C. artifex but on the average a little smaller, the clypeus and propodeum are usually more coarsely sculptured; and it differs from C. globiventris in the much stronger metanotal tubercle.
Type material examined. Paratype: 1♁ BRAZIL: Mato Grosso, 12°50’S, 51°47’W, Cerrado, N[est] 11, 20.ii.1968, O.W. Richards [leg.], R.S. & R.G.S. Expedition, B.M. 1968-260), NHMUK 010817929 (NHM). 1♀, 5♁ same date. Paratype: 1♀, BRAZIL: Goiás, Cristalândia, 01.x.1968, W. Hamilton [leg.] [label], Chartergus chartarius W. Hamilton [det] [label], Chartergus metanotalis Richards, Paratype [label], MZSP 84283 (MZSP).
Additional material examined. BRAZIL: Acre, Sen. Guiomard, F.E. Catuaba, 10°04’28”S- 67°37’00”W, 1–15.iv.2017, Malaise, E.F. Morato & J.A. Rafael. leg. (1♀, INPA); Cruzeiro do Sul, 61° BIS, Hotel de Trânsito, 07°36’26”S / 72°40’55”W, 20–21/XI/1996, Motta, C. S. et alii col. / Luz mista mercúrio, Luz negra BL e BLB, Lençol / 0019530 / Chartergus metanotalis Silveira (det.) (1 ♀, INPA); Amazonas, Itacoatiara, Mil Madeireira, 02°45’10”S- 58°39’11”W, 29–30.xi.2005 / Luminosa Móvel, J.A. Rafael, R.J.P. Machado & A. Silva leg. (1♀, INPA); FLOREST Canutama, Terra Firme, 07.v.2013, -64.5515 -6.5069, Oliveira & Somavilla leg. (1♀, INPA); Pará, Repartimento Vicinal 08, 04°26’42”S- 49°54’25”W, 28.xi.2001, Malaise, J.A. Rafael & J. Vidal leg. / Chartergus metanotalis Silveira (det.) (1♀, INPA); Tucurui, Puraquequara, 11.viii.1980, eq. Nunes de Mello leg. (2♀, INPA).
Distribution (Fig 4). Colombia:Amazonas, Putumayo *; Ecuador: Napo; Brazil: Acre, Amazonas, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Tocantins.
description: Published as part of Somavilla, Alexandre, Aragão, Marcos, Barroso, Paulo Cézar Salgado, Carpenter, James M. & Menezes, Rodolpho Santos Telles, 2024, Taxonomic account and phylogenetic relationships of the species of the Neotropical social wasp genus Chartergus Lepeletier, 1836 (Vespidae: Polistinae: Epiponini), pp. 279-290 in Zootaxa 5418 (3) on pages 286-287, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5418.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/10726504