Anisepyris bradleyi (Evans, 1959)

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 : 30

Anisepyris bradleyi (Evans, 1959)

( Figs 4I ; 5D; 5M; 5S)

Rhabdepyris (Lophepyris) bradleyi Evans, 1959 , 61: 202.

Anisepyris bradleyi Evans, 1959 . Combined by Evans, 1964: 132 98.

Redescription, female. Body length 5.46 mm. Head with green reflection; mesosoma with green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings subhyaline; metasoma castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, slightly angled, step-shaped. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short. Frons coriaceous ; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli very small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctured; transverse pronotal carina present, incomplete; posterior margin without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectalpropodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and inconspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; propodeal declivity polished. 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 bifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. 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 strongly curved forward; 2vf slender, ventral margin angled, and with dorsal lap swollen posteriorly; 1rv slightly curved forward, ventral process large, and posterior process long; 2rv slightly curved forward.

Material examined. VENEZUELA, Caripe, 1 ♀, Canuco El Mirador, 22.vii.1973, J.C. Shuttleworth [collector] ( CNCI). TRINIDAD, Curupe, 1 ♀, 14.ii.1978, M[alaise] T[rap] ( CNCI); 1 ♀, 1978 or 1979, M[alaise] T[rap], F.D. Bennett [collector] ( CNCI); VENEZUELA, Bolívar, 1 ♀, Guri, 14.iii.1998, FIT, H & A. Howden [collectors] ( CNCI); Caripe, 1 ♀, Canuco El Mirador, 22.vii.1973, J.C. Shuttleworth [collector] ( CNCI).

Distribution. U.S.A.: Texas, Florida; Trinidad & Tobago; Venezuela.

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FIGURE 4. Anisepyris: aeneus species-group. Head in dorsal profile. A. A. brandiri sp. nov.; B. A. elrosi sp. nov.; C. A. eluredi sp. nov.; D. A. elwingi sp. nov.; E. A. erellonti sp. nov.; F. A. estei sp. nov.; G. A. aeneus Kieffer, 1906; H. A. aurichalceus (Westwood, 1874); I. A. bradleyi (Evans, 1959); J. A. longimerus Santos & Azevedo, 2000; K. A. olivaceus (Evans, 1965); L.A.portoricensis Evans, 1966.