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Anisepyris cupreolus

Description

Anisepyris cupreolus (Evans, 1965)

(Figs 17D; 17K; 17N; 18C)

Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) cupreolus Evans, 1965, 133: 108–109.

Anisepyris cupreolus (Evans, 1965). Combined by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 23.

Redescription, female. Body length 5.15 mm. Wings bi-banded; metasoma castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, curved, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous; with frontal process; antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. 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 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 opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments sparsely 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 strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv slightly curved forward, ventral process small, and posterior process long; 2rv not curved.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, BRAZIL, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutônia, VII.1953, F. Plaumann col. (MCZH, #30950). Allotype, ♂, ECUADOR. Bucay, 6.X.1922, F.x. Williams col. (BPBM). Genitalia slide HE 568. HONDURAS, Cortez, 1 ♀, Tujoa lake, Deer Isl [and], 19–26.vi.1994, FIT, J. Ashe, R. Brooks (CNCI); TRINIDAD, Arima, 1 ♀, 8 Km N Arima, Simila Res [erve] Sta [tion], lower montane rain for[est], 260m, 24.vi–8.vii.1993, FIT, S. & J. Peck, (CNCI).

Distribution. Honduras; Trinidad & Tobago; Brazil: Santa Catarina.

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 125-126, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BPBM , FIT, CNCI , MCZH
Event date
1922-10-06 , 1993-06-24 , 1994-06-19
Verbatim event date
1922-10-06 , 1993-06-24/07-08 , 1994-06-19/26
Scientific name authorship
Evans
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Anisepyris
Species
cupreolus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
allotype , holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Anisepyris cupreolus (Evans, 1965) sec. Barbosa & Azevedo, 2018

References

  • Evans, H. E. (1965) A revision of the genus Rhabdepyris in the Americas (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 133, 68 - 151.
  • Waichert, C. & Azevedo, C. O. (2009) Phylogenetic analysis of Rhabdepyris (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) and redefinition of generic limits based on structural characters. Zootaxa, 2284, 1 - 29.