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Anisepyris pulchripennis

Description

Anisepyris pulchripennis (Evans, 1965)

(Figs 22J; 23B; 23H; 23K)

Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) pulchripennis Evans, 1965, 133: 106–107.

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

Redescription, female. Body length 4 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings bi-banded; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, curved, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, very short; median clypeal carina hardly distinct from clypeus. Frons coriaceous; with frontal process; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotalpropodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv longer than genitalia body; 2vv shorter than 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf curved downward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv slightly curved forward, ventral process large, and posterior process short; 2rv not curved.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, COSTA RICA, Turrialba, 9°54'N 83°41'W, 24 June 1949, (K.W. Coper) (USNM).

Distribution. Costa Rica.

Remarks. As aforementioned, this species is the only one of pulchripennis species-group transferred megacephalus species-group. All other species of the former group compose cupreolus species-group.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Event date
1949-06-24
Verbatim event date
1949-06-24
Scientific name authorship
Evans
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Anisepyris
Species
pulchripennis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Anisepyris pulchripennis (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.