Anisepyris werneri ( Evans, 1965 )

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 : 180

Anisepyris werneri ( Evans, 1965)

( Figs 23A ; 23D; 23H; 23I)

Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) werneri Evans, 1965 , 133: 89–90.

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

Redescription, female. Body length 5.46 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, curved, and step-shaped. Median clypeal lobe rounded, very short; median clypeal carina indistinct from clypeus. Frons coriaceous ; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli very small. Vertex straight. 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 short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina absent; 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 opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv slightly longer than genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf slightly curved forward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly.

Redescription, male. Body length 4.2 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short. Mandible slender, curved, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous . Antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous ; transverse pronotal carina absent; without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectalpropodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and inconspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity polished. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea opened; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia not spinose. Genitalia. Basiparamere longer than paramere; paramere slender, rounded, and with basal portion angled, glabrous; basivolsella with inner margin angled; cuspis with arms very short, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus basal portion convex and wide, apical portion as long as basal portion and slender; apodeme slender.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, U.S.A., Arizona, Globe, Gila Co [unty], 3600 ft, mesquite—oak, 33°47'28"N 110°50'11"W, July 8–1949, F. Werner & W. Nutting ( USNM) . Allotype, ♂, [ U.S.A.], Ariz [ona], 19 mi. N Globe, [Gila Co.], 20.VI.1957, Mesquite, F. Werner & G. Butler col. ( MCZH) .

Distribution. U.S.A.: Arizona; Mexico.

Figures

FIGURE 23. Anisepyris: megacephalus species-group. Head in dorsal profile. A. A. werneri (Evans, 1965) (♀); B–E. Mandible infrontal profile;F–H.Mesosoma indorsal profile;I–K.Mesopleuronin frontalprofile;proteus species-group.L–Q. Head in dorsal profile. L. A. ancalagoni sp. nov.; M. A. daeroni sp. nov.; N. A. dairuini sp. nov.; O. A.dorlasi sp. nov.; P. A. draugluini sp.nov.; Q. A.eilineli sp. nov.