Anisepyris hondurensis Evans, 1966

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 : 139-140

Anisepyris hondurensis Evans, 1966

( Figs 18N ; 19C; 19D; 19F)

Anisepyris hondurensis Evans, 1966 , 9: 74–76.

Redescription, female. Body length 4.5 mm. Head with dark green reflection; mesosoma with dark green reflection. Head wide. Mandible with four distal teeth, rounded and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous ; with frontal process; antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous ; transverse pronotal carina complete; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea closed; posterior fovea absent. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid.

Redescription, male. Body length 4.77 mm. Head with darkish green reflection; mesosoma with darkish blue reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae. Mandible very narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long. Frons coriaceous . Antennal scrobe carinate, but weak. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous ; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus wide. 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; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere wide, rounded, and with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin straight, sparsely setose; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm wide; digitus with basal projection overlapping basal portion of aedeagus; aedeagus with basal portion convex and slender, and apical portion shorter than basal and slender; apodeme slender.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, HONDURAS, Tegucigalpa , 16.II.1918, F.J. Dyer col., #35275, Ac. 24309 ( AMNH) . BRAZIL, 1 ♂, Minas Gerais, 19°S 45°W, 05.xii.1996 ( UFMG) . BRAZIL, Minas Gerais, 1 ♂, 05.xii.1996 ( UFMG) .

Distribution. Honduras; Brazil: Minas Gerais.

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.