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Anisepyris laticeps Evans 1959

Description

Anisepyris laticeps Evans, 1959

(Figs 13J; 14J; 15A; 15C; 15J; 15M)

Anisepyris laticeps Evans, 1959, 61: 113–114.

Redescription, female. Body length 4.7 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, slender, slightly angled, and with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short, with apical median tooth. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe carinate and reaching compound eye. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocelli very small. Vertex convex. Sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina complete; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergent to first pair of 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 present; mesopleural suture closed. Mesotibia spinose.

Redescription, male. Body length 3.62 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae, with tooth projection at second and third flagellomere. Mandible narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long, with tooth at apical margin. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate and reaching eye. Eye large, circumocular suture present. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus wide. Mesoscutellar sulcus wide. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; 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 not distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous.

Material examined. Male. NICARAGUA, Granada, Volcan Mombacho, Santa Ana 1, 11°49'34"N 85°58'03"W, 2.vi.1998, Mal[aise] trap, J.M. Maes col[ector] (SEAN).

Distribution. Nicaragua.

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 pages 99-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Evans
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Anisepyris
Species
laticeps
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Anisepyris laticeps Evans, 1959 sec. Barbosa & Azevedo, 2018