Anisepyris arzimrathoni Barbosa & Azevedo, 2018

Barbosa, Diego N. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2018, Revision of Anisepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of 135 new species, Zootaxa 4416 (1), pp. 1-258 : 112-113

Anisepyris arzimrathoni Barbosa & Azevedo , sp. nov.

( Figs 16B ; 17K; 18A; 18C)

Description, female. Body length 3.69 mm. Head with dark green reflection; mesosoma with dark green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, curved, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous ; with frontal process; antennal scrobe carinate, but weak. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli very small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous ; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; 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 closed; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv as long as genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf strongly curved forward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv slightly curved forward, ventral process large, and posterior process short; 2rv strongly curved forward.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, BRAZIL, São Paulo, Descalvado, Faz [enda] Itaúnas , Cerrado , Citros , 21°54'S 47°37'W, 16.i.2008, arm[adilha] Möricke, N.W. Perioto & equipe col[etores] ( UFES 80001 ) . Paratypes (2). BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro, 1 ♀, 16.x.1984, Möricke, ( UFES 10183 ) ; São Paulo, 1 ♀, Am [érico] Brasiliense, Cerradão , Clube Náutico , arm[adilha] Möricke espaço 1m, 25–29.ix.1999, MT Tavares e equipe col[etores] ( UFES 20131 ) .

Distribution. Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo.

Remarks. This new species differs from A. pulchripennis by having the body with dark green reflection and the metapectal-propodeal disc black,; the wings clear hyaline; the antennal scrobe carinate; the ocelli very small; the notaulus very narrow; the metapostnotum with longitudinal ridges; the mesopleural fovea closed; and the mesopleural suture opened, whereas A. pulchripennis has the body black; the wings bi-banded; the antennal scrobe ecarinate; the ocelli small; the notaulus narrow; the metapostnotum without longitudinal ridges; the mesopleural fovea opened; and the mesopleural suture closed.

Figures

FIGURE 16. Anisepyris: cupreolus species-group. Head in dorsal profile. A. A. arsakalthori sp. nov.; B. A. arzimrathoni sp. nov.; C. A. aranwei sp. nov.; D. A. aratani sp. nov.; E. A. aratari sp. nov.; F. A. belegi sp. nov.; G. A. bregoi sp. nov.; H. A. ciryoni sp. nov.; I. A.curufini sp. nov.; J. A. cirdani sp. nov.; K. A. elendili sp. nov.; L. A.gilgaladi sp. nov.