Polybia fulvotincta Cameron, 1907:184, ♀, Belize (leg. J.D. Johnson), Lectotype ♀, examined (BMNH), designated by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:147; Santos et al., 2020Santos, J.N. dos Jr., O.T. Silveira & J.M. Carpenter 2020. Taxonomic revision of the Protopolybia picteti-emortualis species-group (Richards, 1978), with descriptions of two new species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Zootaxa 4729:228-248.:237, Lectotype ♀, examined (BMNH). - As Protopolybia fulvotincta: - Santos et al., 2020Santos, J.N. dos Jr., O.T. Silveira & J.M. Carpenter 2020. Taxonomic revision of the Protopolybia picteti-emortualis species-group (Richards, 1978), with descriptions of two new species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Zootaxa 4729:228-248. (distribution), 237 (stat. rev.). - As Protopolybia picteti fulvotincta: - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (distribution); Kumar et al., 2009Kumar, J.T. Longino, R.K. Colwell & S. O'Donnell 2009. Elevational patterns of diversity and abundance of eusocial paper wasps (Vespidae) in Costa Rica. Biotropica 41 (3):338-346. (distribution).