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Diagnostic features of the female of P. schmidti are described and illustrated for the first time. The genus Propetes is newly recorded from the State of São Paulo, SE Brazil. The presence of an internal sclerotized plate from abdominal sternite VIII is reported in females of this genus for the first time. The following characteristics of P. schmidti suggest that it mimics epiponine wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae): colour mostly black in the male and with large yellow areas in the female, pronotum convex, mesoscutellum swollen, forewings hyaline and elongate, and abdomen constricted basally. The different colour patterns of males and females suggest a dual, sex-limited Batesian mimicry. This is the first record of mimicry in the tribe Proconiini and of dual-mimicry in an auchenorrhynchan group.