Evaniscus lansdownei Mullins

Mullins, Patricia L., Kawada, Ricardo, Balhoff, James P. & Deans, Andrew R., 2012, A revision of Evaniscus (Hymenoptera, Evaniidae) using ontology-based semantic phenotype annotation, ZooKeys 223, pp. 1-38 : 4-5

Evaniscus lansdownei Mullins sp. n. Figures 1-6

Etymology.

This species is named in honor of four sixth-grade students (Donyae Johnson, Monique McRae, Breeanna Berrios and Iyanna Reeves) at Lansdowne Middle School, Baltimore, MD, for winning the Hexapod Haiku challenge at North Carolina State University in 2011.

Diagnosis.

Evaniscus lansdownei is easily recognized by two unique characters: fore wing vein color: yellow; setae on proximal region of fore wing color: yellow.

Description.

Head. Head color: yellow. Mandible color vs clypeus color: mandible color same as clypeus color. Subantennal carina length: extending dorsally of medial margin of lower face. Preorbital carina length: extending dorsally to ventral margin of the antennal foramen. Upper face sculpture: punctate and foveate. Malar space length vs. half compound eye height (male): shorter than half compound eye height. Ocellar ocular line length vs. lateral ocellus diameter: as long or longer than lateral ocellus diameter. Posterior ocellar length vs. lateral ocellus diameter: 1.5 × as long as the diameter of the lateral ocellus. Ventral region of occipital carina curvature in lateral view: straight. Radicle color: yellow. Scape color: yellow. Scape length vs compound eye height: scape shorter than half compound eye height.

Mesosoma. Mesosoma length: 3.5-3.5 mm (n=1). Antero-dorsal region of mesosoma color: yellow. Postero-ventral region of mesosoma color: black. Median notch of transverse pronotal carina presence: present. Transverse pronotal carina length: long, extending postero-laterally of epomia. Pronotal collar sculpture: foveate. Patch that is part of dorsal region of lateral pronotal area texture: smooth. Pronotal lobe carina presence: present. Mesonotum color: red. Mesoscutum shape: as long as wide (length of mesoscutum> width of mesoscutum). Antero-admedian line length vs. lateral ocellus diameter: equal to lateral ocellus diameter. Parapsidal signum conspicuousness: inconspicuous. Foveae on notaulus presence: present. Distance between depressions vs. diameter of depressions on internotaular area: greater than the diameter of one depression. Mesofemoral depression sculpture: smooth. Mesofemoral depression pilosity presence: absent. Ventral area of the mesopectus sculpture: smooth. Medial region of transmetapectal carina presence: absent. Area dorsal of transmetapectal carina sculpture: areolate. Posterior propodeal projection shape in lateral view: not raised. Posterior region of plica presence: present. Dorsal area of the metapectal-propodeal complex sculpture: foveate. Posterior margin of the metapectal-propodeal complex ventrally of the propodeal foramen curvature in lateral view: curved. Mesosoma color: black posteroventrally, yellow anterodorsally.

Legs. Fore leg color: yellow. Mid leg color: yellow. Hind leg color: black. Metafemur length vs. metatibia length: metafemur equal to or shorter than metatibia. Metabasitarsus length vs metatibia length: metabasitarsus 1.2 × to 1.4 × as short as metatibia.

Wings. Fore wing vein color: yellow. Setae on proximal region of fore wing color: yellow.

Metasoma. Metasoma color: black. Dorsal region of petiole sculpture: foveate.

Material examined.

HOLOTYPE male: COLOMBIA: Mata Mata Sta., Sweep, 8-12..2000, M. Sharkey, NCSU 33809 (deposited in NCSU). Paratypes (1 male). BRAZIL: NCSU 67242 (INPA).