Anisepyris aerini Barbosa & Azevedo 2018, sp. nov.
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Anisepyri s aerini Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 6E; 8H; 9A; 9C)
Description, female. Body length 5.85 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous, lightening posterad. Head wide. Mandible with four distal teeth, wide, strongly angled, with teeth different sized. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short, with median tooth; median clypeal carina projected upward. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe carinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; 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 fused with first metapostnotal carina; 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 not 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 slightly curved forward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap swollen posteriorly; 1rv not curved, ventral process large, and posterior process short; 2rv not curved.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, BRASIL, Bahia, C[onceição] Jacuípe, Faz[enda] Queimada, 12°19'37”S 38°45'54"W, 22–27.xii.2002, arm[adilha] Malaise, C.O. Azevedo col[etor] (UFES 80216). Paratypes (3). BRAZIL, Espírito Santo, 1 ♀, Pinheiros, Res[erva] Biol [ógica] Córrego do Veado, 18°21'S 40°09'W, 09–17.vi.2011, arm[adilha] Malaise, M.T. Tavares & equipe col[etores] (UFES 63187); Minas Gerais, 1 ♀, Marliéria, P[arque] E[stadual] Rio Doce, Área Tereza, 19°37'S 42°34'W, 07–14.x.2001, arm[adilha] Malaise, JCR Fontenelle col[etor] (UFES 100896); Espírito Santo, 1 ♀, Itaguaçu, Alto Lajinha, Faz[enda] Binda, 19°48'S 40°48'W, 22–29.ix.2008, arm[adilha] Malaise, M.T. Tavares & equipe col[etores] (UFES 80190).
Distribution. Brazil: Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais.
Remarks. This species differs from A. jocundus Evans, 1966 by having the body black with green-goldish reflection; the clypeus projecting with its apical margin acute; the antennal scrobe carina extending around the anterior margin of the head; and the mesopleuron with all foveae closed, whereas A. jocundus has the body black with dark green reflection; the clypeus with its median lobe rounded, short; the antennal scrobe carina not reaching the eyes; and the mesopleuron with the lower foveae closed and the mesopleural suture opened.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- UFES
- Material sample ID
- UFES 63187 , UFES 80190 , UFES 80216
- Event date
- 2001-10-07 , 2002-12-22 , 2008-09-22 , 2011-06-09
- Verbatim event date
- 2001-10-07 , 2002-12-22/27 , 2008-09-22/29 , 2011-06-09/17
- Scientific name authorship
- Barbosa & Azevedo
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Bethylidae
- Genus
- Anisepyris
- Species
- aerini
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Anisepyris aerini Barbosa & Azevedo, 2018
References
- Evans, H. E. (1966) A revision of the genus Anisepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera. Bethylidae). Studia Entomologica, 9, 1 - 120.