Abstract
A new species of Neotropical social wasp, Protopolybia lidiae Santos & Silveira, sp. nov. (Brazil: Pará) is described and illustrated. The hitherto unknown male of P. minutissima (Spinola, 1851) and the nest of P. clypeata Santos, Silveira & Carpenter, 2015, are described. Additional information on nest variation and new collection records are presented for other species of the exigua species-group.
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