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Anisepyris hondurensis Evans 1966

Description

Anisepyris hondurensis Evans, 1966

(Figs 18N; 19C; 19D; 19F)

Anisepyris hondurensis Evans, 1966, 9: 74–76.

Redescription, female. Body length 4.5 mm. Head with dark green reflection; mesosoma with dark green reflection. Head wide. Mandible with four distal teeth, rounded and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous; with frontal process; antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea closed; posterior fovea absent. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid.

Redescription, male. Body length 4.77 mm. Head with darkish green reflection; mesosoma with darkish blue reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae. Mandible very narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate, but weak. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus wide. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectalpropodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and inconspicuous; 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 not distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere wide, rounded, and with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin straight, sparsely setose; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm wide; digitus with basal projection overlapping basal portion of aedeagus; aedeagus with basal portion convex and slender, and apical portion shorter than basal and slender; apodeme slender.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, HONDURAS, Tegucigalpa, 16.II.1918, F.J. Dyer col., #35275, Ac. 24309 (AMNH). BRAZIL, 1 ♂, Minas Gerais, 19°S 45°W, 05.xii.1996 (UFMG). BRAZIL, Minas Gerais, 1 ♂, 05.xii.1996 (UFMG).

Distribution. Honduras; Brazil: Minas Gerais.

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 139-140, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AMNH , UFMG
Event date
1918-02-16 , 1996-12-05
Verbatim event date
1918-02-16 , 1996-12-05
Scientific name authorship
Evans
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Anisepyris
Species
hondurensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Anisepyris hondurensis Evans, 1966 sec. Barbosa & Azevedo, 2018

References

  • Evans, H. E. (1966) A revision of the genus Anisepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera. Bethylidae). Studia Entomologica, 9, 1 - 120.