Anisepyris pulchripennis
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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.
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Identifiers
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.