Genus Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 a: 7, 9, 17. Type species: Polybia bella R. von Ihering, 1903 by subsequent designation (Bequaert 1944a). Pseudochartergus Ducke 1905 a: 8, 9, 15. Type species Charterginus cinctellus Fox, 1898 (= Nectarina chartergoides Gribodo, 1892) by subsequent designation (Bequaert 1938). Junior subjective synonym of Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 according to Carpenter and Wenzel (1989: 185) Protopolybia Ducke: Bequaert 1938: 103. Pseudochartergus Ducke: Bequaert 1938: 103. Protopolybia Ducke: Bequaert 1944a: 97, 98, 99 (part.). Protopolybia Ducke: Bequart 1944b: 252, 265 (part.). Pseudochartergus Ducke: Bequaert 1944b: 252, 264 (part.). Protopolybia Ducke: Richards 1978: 8, 136. Pseudochartergus Ducke: Richards 1978: 8, 154. Protopolybia Ducke: Santos-Junior et al. 2015: 154, 172.

Published as part of Dos Santos Junior, José N. A., Silveira, Orlando T. & Carpenter, James M., 2020, Taxonomic revision of the P. chartergoides species-group of the genus Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae), pp. 542-554 in Zootaxa 4858 (4) on page 543, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4537528