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Anisepyris huani Barbosa & Azevedo 2018, sp. nov.

Description

Anisepyris huani Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.

(Figs 18J; 19C; 19D; 19E)

Description, male. Body length 5.69 mm. Head with green reflection; mesosoma with darkish green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae. Mandible narrow, slightly angled, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate, but weak. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina complete; without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus wide. Mesoscutellar sulcus wide. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergent to 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 sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere shorter than paramere; paramere wide and fusiform, sparsely setose; basivolsella with apical excavation at inner margin; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus with basal portion convex and slender, and apical portion as long as basal and very slender; apodeme slender.

Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, Amazonas, Manaus, campus univ[ersitário], 03°06'S 60°01'W, 22–29.vi.1982, Mal [aise] tr[ap], J.A. Rafael [coletor] (OSUC). Paratype (1). BRAZIL, Maranhão, 1 ♂, Carolina, Balneário Urupuxete, 07°10'25"S 47°25'27"W, 13.xii.2001, arm[adilha] Malaise, Rafael, Oliveira & Vidal [coletores] (INPA).

Distribution. Brazil: Amazonas, Maranhão.

Remarks. This new species differs from A. similis by having the clypeus short; the vertex almost straight; the notaulus wide; the mesopleuron with the lower fovea not divided; the genitalia with basivolsella excavated at inner margin and with inner basal projection; the paramere longer than the basiparamere with its apex almost angulate; and the aedeagus with the apical portion slender and longer than the basal portion, whereas A. similis has the clypeus long; the vertex convex; the notaulus very narrow; the mesopleuron with the lower fovea divided; the basivolsella with the inner margin angled; the paramere shorter than the basiparamere with the apex rounded; and the aedeagus with the basal portion angled and slender, and apical portion as long as the basal portion.

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 136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
INPA , OSUC
Event date
1982-06-22 , 2001-12-13
Verbatim event date
1982-06-22/29 , 2001-12-13
Scientific name authorship
Barbosa & Azevedo
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Anisepyris
Species
huani
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Anisepyris huani Barbosa & Azevedo, 2018