Trissepyris Kieffer, 1905

Colombo, Wesley D. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2023, Synopsis of Trissepyris Kieffer, 1905 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), an endemic Afrotropical genus, with description of a new species, Zoosystema 45 (4), pp. 129-135 : 130

Genus Trissepyris Kieffer, 1905

Trissepyris Kieffer, 1905: 117 .

TYPE SPECIES. — Trissepyris ruficeps Kieffer, 1905 .

DIAGNOSIS OF FEMALE. — Colour. Head rufous castaneous; mesosoma and metasoma black; clypeus castaneous with margin black; mandible castaneous with margins of teeth nearly black; antenna and palpi castaneous; eye and ocelli black; legs rufous castaneous, coxae slightly darker; tegula dark castaneous.

Head. Head subtriangular in lateral view. Mandible robust apically. Clypeus with rounded median lobe, longer than lateral ones, anterior margin angled in anterior view. Antenna with 11 flagellomeres, first flagellomere never ring-shaped. Eye glabrous. Occipital carina incomplete ventrally. Ocellar triangle very compact, far from vertex.

Mesosoma. Dorsal pronotal area ecarinate. Prosternum small. Mesoscuto-scutellar suture with foveae not connected by sulcus, elliptical, distant from each other by at least 5.0× total size of fovea. Metapectal-propodeal disc with transverse anterior, transverse posterior carinae. Propodeal spiracle long, dorsal, elliptical. Mesopleuron with mesopleural pit small, displaced posterior-dorsally.

Wings. Forewing with distinct 2r-rs&Rs vein, about 2× as long as pterostigma. Hind wing with more than five hamuli.