Apenesia beliella Alencar & Azevedo, 2020

Alencar, Isabel D. C. C. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2020, Revision of the world Apenesia Westwood (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), Zootaxa 4724 (1), pp. 1-72 : 12-13

Apenesia beliella Alencar & Azevedo , sp. nov.

( Figs 2D , 5G , 7D , 10D , 13D , 16 A–C)

Description. Holotype. Male. Length 4.7 mm. LFW 4 mm.

Colors. Head and body dark castaneous; metasoma reddish; antenna and mandible light castaneous; legs castaneous and yellowish; wings hyaline, veins castaneous.

Head. Head as long as wide, trapezoidal. Frons coriaceous, sparsely puncticulate; frontal line absent. Vertex slightly convex. Clypeus broad with median lobe subtrapezoidal, median tooth present, and large, apical margin smooth, median carina short in profile. Mandible with five apical teeth, teeth with different size, upper tooth mesad, four upper teeth equally sized. Eye weakly bulging. Ocelli large, triangle with distal edges.

Mesosoma. Dorsal pronotal area very short. Notaulus present, complete, weakly converging posterad. Parapsidal signum weakly impressed. Mesoscutellum longer than wide, posterior margin convex; mesoscutum-mesoscutellar sulcus strongly arched, with fovea on side edge, narrow, deep. Axilla subtrapezoidal, deep, large. Metanotal trough imbricate, metanotal fovea oval; median region wide, large, with posterior margin straight. Metapectalpropodeal complex short, posterior margin almost straight; metapostnotal median carina present, metapostnotum rugulose, and polished. Metapectal-propodeal complex polished. Paraspicular sulcus irregularly foveolate; lateral carina of metapectal-propodeal carina present; lateral surface of propodeum imbricate, inferior region strigulate. Propodeal declivity polished-imbricate.

Metasoma. Petiole short. Hypopygium with plate long, posterior margin concave, flap present. Genitalia: paramere slightly sinuous. Basivolsella apical inner margin projected mesad, large, and acute. Basiparamere with apical dorsal projection large, apex acute. Cuspis with apical margin with two apical calli, ventral wider than other, dorsal end very short. Aedeagus with two apical lobes, ventral lobe large; dorsal lobe short; subapical membrane absent; aedeagal dorsal cover narrow.

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype ♂, MALAYSIA, Pasoh Forest Res. Negri S., IV.3.80, P. & M. Becker, prim. for. ( AEIC) . Paratypes: THAILAND, 1 ♂, Nakhon Si Thammarrat, Namtok Yong NP, 8°10.434’N, 99°44.508’E, 5–12.xi.2008, Malaise trap, U-pral;K. leg., T4254 ( QSBG) ; MALAYSIA: 1 ♂, Se. Sabah, nr Danum Valley Field C. W0N1, 13.ix–4.x.1987, Mal. trap 5, C. V . Achterberg & D. Kennedy, c 150m (RMNH’87); 1 ♂, Se. Sabah, Danum Valley Field C. W0, 24.ii.–18.iii.1987, Mal. Trap 11, C. V . Achterberg, c 150m (RMNH’87); 1 ♂, SW. Sabah, nr Long Pa Sai ( West ), 1–13.iv.1987, Mal. Trap 6, C. V . Achterberg, c. 1025m (RMNH’87); 1 ♂, SW. Sabah, nr Long Pa Sai ( East ), 25.xi–8.xii.1987, Mal. trap 4, C. V . Achterberg, c. 1000m, (RMNH’87); 1 ♂, SW. Sabah, nr Long Pa Sia, Payakalaba , 25.xi.–1.xii.1987, Mal. trap15, C. V . Achterberg, c. 1010m, stub #40 ( SEM) (RMNH’87); Pasoh Forest Res. Negri S., P. & M. Becker, for. gap, 1 ♂, XII.31.79; 1 ♂, XII.20.79; 1 ♂, III.1.80; 1 ♂, III.28.80; 1 ♂, IV.10.80; 1 ♂, IV.15.80; 1 ♂, IV.22.80; 1 ♂, IV.30.80; 1 ♂ ( AEIC); PENINSULA MALAYSIA, 1 ♂, Pasoh Forest Reserve , Negeri Sembilan, 2–8.iv.1993, Fine Malaise Trap, K. Konishi & K. Maeto ( NIAES) ; INDONESIA: 1 ♂, Sula Isl. Mangole, near Buya , 12.x–2.xi.1993, Mal. trap 11, c 460m, C. v. Achterberg (RMNH’93); C Sulawesi nr Luwuk, Salodik , c 400m, 1–14.xi.1989, Mal. trap 14, C. v. Achterberg (RMNH’89); 1 ♂ , VANUATU {= New Heb- rides}, Erromango I, Dillon Bay , ii.1981, N.L.H. Krauss, coll., 0–100m, Acc. #1981.131 ( BPBM) .

Comments. Apenesia beliella is similar to A. itoiela by having the notaulus complete and the metapostnotum rugulose. However, A. beliella has the mandible with five teeth; the mesoscutum-mesoscutellar suture strongly arched and deep; the hypopygium with a flap and the posterior margin concave, whereas A. itoiela has the mandible with four teeth; the mesoscutum-mesoscutellar suture straight and shallow; the hypopygium without a flap and the posterior margin almost straight.

Distribution. Oriental ( Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia) and Australian ( Vanuatu).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Head. A. Apenesia amenula; B. Apenesia aniela; C. Apenesia azeda; D. Apenesia beliella; E. Apenesia berela, F. Apenesia bifiela; G. Apenesia celiela; H. Apenesia chandela.

FIGURE 5. Head. A. Apenesia perlonga; B. Apenesia sahyadrica; C. Apenesia singularis. Mandible. D. Apenesia amenula; E. Apenesia aniela, F. Apenesia azeda; G. Apenesia beliella; H. Apenesia berela; I. Apenesia bifiela; J. Apenesia celiela, K. Apenesia chandela; L. Apenesia cila; M. Apenesia colombela.

FIGURE 7. Dorsal mesosoma. A. Apenesia amenula; B. Apenesia aniela; C. Apenesia azeda; D. Apenesia beliella; E. Apenesia berela, F. Apenesia bifiela; G. Apenesia celiela; H. Apenesia chandela; I. Apenesia cila.

FIGURE 10. Lateral mesosoma. A. Apenesia amenula; B. Apenesia aniela; C. Apenesia azeda; D. Apenesia beliella; E. Apenesia berela, F. Apenesia bifiela; G. Apenesia celiela; H. Apenesia chandela; I. Apenesia cila; J. Apenesia colombela.

FIGURE 13. Hypopygium. A. Apenesia amenula; B. Apenesia aniela; C. Apenesia azeda; D. Apenesia beliella; E. Apenesia berela; F. Apenesia bifiela; G. Apenesia celiela; H. Apenesia chandela; I. Apenesia cila; J. Apenesia colombela; K. Apenesia elela; L. Apenesia esila; M. Apenesia eura; N. Apenesia farela; O. Apenesia gabela. (Scale bar 125µm)

FIGURE 16. Genitalia. A–C. Apenesia beliella; D–F. Apenesia berela; G–I. Apenesia bifiela; A, D, G. ventral view; B, E, H dorsal view; C, F, I. cuspis, lateral view. (Scale bar 125µm)