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Polistes rhodostoma Ducke, 1905:23, ♀.près d'Obidos (État de Parà) (leg. Paul Le Cointe);Tabatinga (Haut Amazone) (leg. Ducke); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:542, Type ♀ (? Mus. Goeldi, Belém). - Bequaert, 1937Bequaert, J. 1937. The american Polistes with prepectal suture. Their structural characters, distribution and variation. Archivos del Instituto de Biología Vegetal, Rio de Janeiro 3 (2):171-205.:187 ( listed as synonym of Polistes deceptor Schulz, 1905); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:542 ( listed as synonym of Polistes deceptor Schulz, 1905).