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Apenesia delicata Evans 1963

Description

Apenesia delicata Evans, 1963

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Apenesia delicata Evans 1963, 130: 268. 352. ♀; Evans 1964, 132: 33; Gordh & Móczár 1990, 46: 202 (catalog).

Diagnosis. Female. Length 2.56 mm. Color. Body castaneous. Mandible with two apical teeth. Clypeus truncate, median carina high, angled and produced beyond margin as tooth. Eye dark, subcircular. Malar space shorter than eye length. Frons polished, punctures small and very sparse, with dark line above clypeus. Head elongate with sides parallel and vertex straight, corner broadly rounded, 1.33 × as long as wide. Dorsal pronotal area with sides parallel. Maximum width of metapectal-propodeal complex 1.77 × its minimum width. Mesotibia strongly spinose. Metasoma as long as head and mesosoma together, with long petiole, 0.5 × length of metatibia.

Material examined. Holotype ♀: JAMAICA, Gordontown, Sta 382, 4.II.1937, Chapin & Blackwelder col. (USNM, #66015).

Distribution. Neotropical (Jamaica).

Notes

Published as part of Alencar, Isabel D. C. C. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2020, Revision of the world Apenesia Westwood (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 4724 (1) on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4724.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3612936

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Event date
1937-02-04
Verbatim event date
1937-02-04
Scientific name authorship
Evans
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Apenesia
Species
delicata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Apenesia delicata Evans, 1963 sec. Alencar & Azevedo, 2020

References

  • Evans, H. E. (1963) A revision of the Apenesia in the Americas (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 130, 249 - 359.
  • Evans, H. E. (1964) A synopsis of the American Bethylidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 132, 1 - 222.
  • Gordh, G. & Moczar, L. (1990) A catalog of the world Bethylidae (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 46, 1 - 364. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1440 - 6055.1990. tb 00341. x