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Epyris hangunensis Terayama 2005

Description

3. Epyris hangunensis Terayama 2005

(Figs 21–27)

Epyris hangunensis Terayama 2005: 72. Figs 111, 112, 3.

Material examined. Holotype 3, Korea: Suwon-si (labeled as Suigen), GG, 16.IX.1925, K. Sato leg. Paratype 1 3, same collection data as holotype.

Diagnosis. Body length ~ 4.4 mm (Fig. 21); LFW ~3.0 mm (Fig. 26). Antenna and legs dark castaneous. Head 1.1 × as long as wide (Fig. 22), anterior half densely punctuate. Vertex broadly almost straight with rounded corners. Temple profile almost parallel. Mandible with single sharpened tooth (Fig. 23). First five antennal segments in ratio of 1.9: 1.0: 1.3: 1.9: 2.0 in length, flagellomere 1 1.3 × as long as wide, flagellomere 11 3.9 × as long as wide (Fig. 24). Clypeus with angulate median lobe. Eye hairy. HE 1.0 × OOL, WF 2.4 × WOT. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse. Pronotal disc 0.6 × as long as wide (Fig. 25). Scutellar pit oval, each pit separated from each other by 2.0 × as its maximum diameter. Propodeal disc 0.7 × as long as wide with three discal carinae, median carina reaching posterior carina, submedian discal carinae reaching two thirds of disc length (Fig. 27). Metacarpus short, 0.4 × as long as pterostigma; transverse-median vein strongly convex posteriorly (Fig. 26).

Variation. Paratype with sparse hairs on eye; legs light to dark castaneous; TL 4.40–4.60 mm; propodeal disc 0.7–0.72 × as long as wide; scutellar pit separated from each other by 1.9–2.1 × as its maximum diameter.

FEMALE. Unknown.

Distribution. Korea (GG).

Remarks. This species was previously recorded from Gyeonggi-do, Korea (Terayama 2005).

Notes

Published as part of Lim, Jongok, Lee, Jongwook, Koh, Sanghyun, Lee, Bongwoo, Azevedo, Celso O. & Lee, Seunghwan, 2011, Taxonomy of Epyris Westwood (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) from Korea, with the descriptions of ten new species, pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 2866 on pages 7-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.277431

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References

  • Terayama, M. (2005) Descriptions of new taxa and distribution records of the family Bethylidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera). III. Subfamily Epyrinae. Liberal Arts, Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University, 13, 51 - 112.