Anisepyris eoli Barbosa & Azevedo, 2018

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 : 134

Anisepyris eoli Barbosa & Azevedo , sp. nov.

( Figs 18H ; 19C; 19D; 19E)

Description, male. Body length 6.54 mm. Head with green reflection; mesosoma with green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae. Mandible narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe quadrate, short. Frons coriaceous . Antennal scrobe carinate and reaching eye. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina complete; without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture fused with first metapostnotal carina; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity polished. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea present; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere longer than paramere; paramere slender, rounded, with ventral and dorsal margin straight, and basal portion angled, sparsely setose; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms very short, with arms almost indistinct each other, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus with basal portion convex and slender, and apical portion shorter than basal, slender and truncate; apodeme slender.

Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, Pará, Vitória do Xingu, Rio Xingu, Bacajá, Bom Jardim, 02°52'48”S 52°00'36"W, 20–24.xi.2007, arm[adilha] Malaise, O.T. Silveira & equipe col[etores] ( MPEG). Paratypes (8). FRENCH GUYANA, Saül , 1 ♂, 7Km N 63Km SE of Eaux Claires, M[oun]t Fuméc, 490m, 1–8.vi.1997, FIT, J. Ashe, R, Brooks [collectors] ( CNCI); BRAZIL, Amazonas, 1 ♂, Parq[ue] Nac[ional] do Jaú, Rio Unini, Bacaba, 14–19.vi.1996, Arm[adilha] suspensa, Henriques & J.F. Vidal col[etores] ( INPA); 1 ♂, Manaus, Reserva 1501, Km 41, 05–30.vi.1995, arm[adilha] suspensa ( INPA); Pará, 3 ♂, Vitória do Xingu, Rio Xingu, Bacajá, Bom Jardim, 20–24.xi.2007, arm[adilha] Malaise, O.T. Silveira & equipe col[etores] ( MPEG); 1 ♂, Tucuruí, Morro do Senador, 03°59'23"S 49°44'45"W, 01.xii.2001, arm[adilha] Malaise, J.A. Rafael & J.F. Vidal col[etores] ( INPA); 1 ♂, Novo Repartimento, Vacinal 45, 04°21'51"S 50°01'49"W, 27.xi.2001, arm[adilha] Malaise, J.A. Rafael & J.F. Vidal col[etores] ( INPA).

Distribution. French Guyana; Brazil: Amazonas, Pará.

Remarks. This new species differs from A. venustus by having the antennal flagellomeres short with dense setae; the mandible with the teeth equally wide; the clypeus quadrate; the antennal scrobe carinate and reaching the eye; the eye large; the notaulus narrow; the metapostnotum with the metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergent to the first metapostnotal carina; and the mesopleuron with a posterior fovea present, whereas A. venustus has the antennal flagellomeres long with sparse setae; the mandible with the two upper teeth wider than the others; the clypeus angulate; the antennal scrobe carina not reaching the eye; the eye small; the notaulus very narrow; the metapostnotum with the metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; and the mesopleuron with the posterior fovea absent.

Figures

FIGURE 18. Anisepyris: cupreolus species-group. A–B. Mesosoma in dorsal profile; C–F. Mesopleuron in frontal profile; dietrichorum species-group. G–N. Head in dorsal profile.G.A. annaeli sp. nov.; H. A. eoli sp. nov.; I. A. halethi sp. nov.; J. A. huani sp. nov.; K. A. hundadi sp. nov.; L. A. cariniceps Evans, 1966; M. A. dietrichorum Evans, 1966; N. A. hondurensis Evans, 1966.