Anisepyris chupah Snelling, 1996

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 : 211-212

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scientific name	Anisepyris chupah Snelling, 1996
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Anisepyris chupah Snelling, 1996 , 17: 199–200.

Redescription, male. Body length 3.4 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short. Mandible narrow, slightly angled, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short, with median tooth at apical margin. Frons coriaceous . Antennal scrobe carinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous ; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina absent; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity polished. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea opened; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia not spinose. Genitalia. Basiparamere longer than paramere; paramere slender, rounded, with ventral and dorsal margin straight; basivolsella with excavation at inner margin; cuspis with arms long, dorsal arm slender.

Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRITISH VIRGIN ISL [AND]S, Guana I [sland], North Beach woods, 18°29.1'N 64°34.5'W, dry evergreen forest, 7–12.VII.1993, Malaise [trap], R.R. Snelling col. ( LACM ENT 164331).

Distribution. British Virgin Islands.

Remarks. The only specimen had its genitalia lost. The description and illustration of genitalia ( Fig. 27 View FIGURE 27 , pg. 199) are based on the original description.