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Anisepyris herumori Barbosa & Azevedo 2018, sp. nov.

Description

Anisepyris herumori Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.

(Figs 19I; 20E; 20F; 20G)

Description, male. Body length 3.61 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with sparse and short setae. Mandible very narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe rounded, long, with apical median tooth. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc shorter than wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow; posterior mesoscutellar sulcus present. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; 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 glabrous. Genitalia. Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere slender, rounded, with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin straight, and basal portion angled, glabrous; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus with basal portion angled and wide, and apical portion as long as basal and swollen; apodeme slender.

Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, São Paulo, Descalvado, Faz [enda] Itaúnas, Cerrado, 21°54'S 47°37'W, 20.x.2005, arm[adilha] Malaise, N.W. Perioto & equipe col[etores] (UFES 79845). Paratypes (2). BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro, 1 ♀, Nova Iguaçu, Res [erva] Biol [ógica] do Tinguá, 22°34'37"S 43°26'06.6"W, 8–11.iii.2002 —[armadilha] Malaise, STP Amarante & eq[uipe] col[etor] (UFES 29661); São Paulo, 1 ♀, Bauru, UNESP, Cerrado, 06.vi.19 +91, S.S. Ruiz col[etor] (UFES 10107).

Distribution. Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo.

Remarks. This new species differs from A. interruptus by having the anteromesoscutum with the notaulus narrow; the posterior mesoscutellar sulcus present; the metapostnotum without longitudinal ridges; the metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergent to the first metapostnotal carina; the mesopleuron with the lower fovea and mesopleural suture closed; the basiparamere as long as the paramere; the paramere basal portion angled; and the basivolsela uniform, whereas A. interruptus has the anteromesoscutum with very notaulus narrow; the posterior mesoscutellar sulcus absent; the metapostnotum with longitudinal ridges; the metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; the mesopleuron with the lower fovea and mesopleural suture opened; the basiparamere shorter than the paramere; the paramere basal portion abruptly slender; and the basivolsela with an apical excavation at inner margin and with a short basal projection.

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 143-144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263

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Biodiversity

Collection code
STP , UFES , UNESP
Material sample ID
UFES 10107 , UFES 29661 , UFES 79845
Event date
1919-06-06 , 2002-03-08 , 2005-10-20
Verbatim event date
1919-06-06 , 2002-03-08/11 , 2005-10-20
Scientific name authorship
Barbosa & Azevedo
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Anisepyris
Species
herumori
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Anisepyris herumori Barbosa & Azevedo, 2018