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Anisepyris aegnori Barbosa & Azevedo 2018, sp. nov.

Description

Anisepyris aegnori Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.

(Figs 6D; 8H; 8P; 9C)

Description, female. Body length 7.53 mm. Head with green reflection; mesosoma with green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings subhyaline; metasoma dark castaneous, lightening posterad. Head wide. Mandible with four distal teeth, wide, strongly angled, with teeth different sized. Median clypeal lobe rounded, very short, truncate at apical margin; median clypeal carina swollen. Frons coriaceous; with frontal process; antennal scrobe carinate, but weak. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina present, incomplete; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea closed; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments densely setose. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv slightly longer than genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf strongly curved forward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap swollen posteriorly; 1rv not curved, ventral process large, and posterior process long; 2rv not curved.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, BRAZIL, Espírito Santo, Pinheiros, Res [erva] Biol [ógica] Córrego do Veado, 18°21'S 40°09'W, 09–17.vi.2011, arm[adilha] Möricke, M.T. Tavares & equipe col[etores] (UFES 63348). Paratype (1). BRAZIL, Minas Gerais, 1 ♀, Marliéria, P [arque] E[stadual] Rio Doce, Área Tereza, 19°37'S 42°34'W, 19–26.x.2000, arm[adilha] Malaise, JCR Fontenelle col[etor] (UFES 102783).

Distribution. Brazil: Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais.

Remarks. This species differs from A. excisus Evans, 1959 by having the body colour with green reflections; the clypeal carina swollen; the frons with a median impression that does not reach the midpoint of the head; and the mesopleuron with all foveae closed, whereas A. excisus has the body colour dark castaneous; the clypeal carina not swollen; the frons with a median impression that reaches the midpoint of the head; and the mesopleuron with the lower foveae closed and the mesopleural suture opened.

Notes

Published as part of Barbosa, Diego N. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2018, Revision of Anisepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of 135 new species, pp. 1-258 in Zootaxa 4416 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263

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Biodiversity

Collection code
UFES
Event date
2000-10-19 , 2011-06-09
Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Anisepyris
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
UFES 102783 , UFES 63348
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Barbosa & Azevedo
Species
aegnori
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
2000-10-19/26 , 2011-06-09/17
Taxonomic concept label
Anisepyris aegnori Barbosa & Azevedo, 2018