Anisepyris aranwei 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 : 113-114

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3341A80B-7E54-4C6B-8B46-1336094952E2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5961388

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039D87C4-5C6F-FFCA-48F6-FB89FE0FFE50

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Plazi

scientific name

Anisepyris aranwei Barbosa & Azevedo
status

sp. nov.

Anisepyris aranwei Barbosa & Azevedo , sp. nov.

( Figs 16C View FIGURE 16 ; 17K; 18A; 18C)

Description, female. Body length 4.46 mm. Head with golden-green reflection; wings bi-banded; metasoma castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, curved, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short, with apical margin truncate. Frons coriaceous ; with frontal process; antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous ; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and inconspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectalpropodeal disc with short striae. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea closed; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv as long as genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, smoothly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf strongly curved forward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv slightly curved forward, ventral process large, and posterior process short; 2rv not curved.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, BRAZIL , Acre, P[ar]q[ue] Nac [ional] Serra do Divisor, Norte , mata, 07°20'52”S 73°40'46"W, 14–15.xi.1996, arm[adilha] Malaise, E.F. Morato col[etor]. Paratypes (8). SURINAME GoogleMaps , Paramaribo, 1 ♀ , Carolina creek, 11km SE Zanderij airport, 30m, 18–20.vi.1999, FIT, Z. H. Falin, A. Gangadin ( CNCI); BRAZIL , Amazonas, 1 ♀, Reserva Ducke , 06–17.vii.1992, adesiva 1m, J. Vidal & J. Vidal col[etores] ( INPA) ; Pará, 1 ♀, Melgaço, Floresta Nacional Caxiuanã, Trilha Est[ação] Cie [ntífica] Ferreira Pena, 22.xi–25.xi.2003, arm[adilha] Möricke , A.P. Aguiar & J.D. Dias ( MPEG) ; 1 ♀, Trilha Igarapé Ararua , 24.xi–27.xi.2003 ; Trilha Igarapé Curua , 14.xi–17.xi.2003 ; 1 ♀, 23.xi–26.xi.2003; Acre, 1 ♀, P[ar]q[ue] Nac [ional] Serra do Divisor, Norte , mata, 12–13.xi.1996, arm[adilha] Malaise, E.F. Morato col[etor] ( UFES) ; Bahia, 1 ♀, Firmino Alves, Faz[enda] Santo Antônio , 14°59'S 39°55'W, 24.xi.2002, arm[adilha] Malaise (CEPLAC). GoogleMaps

Distribution. Brazil: Amazonas, Pará, Acre, Bahia.

Remarks. This new species differs from A. pulchripennis by having the body with golden-green reflections; the clypeus short, with its apical margin truncate, and the clypeal carina distinct; the antennal scrobe carinate; the ocelli large; the notaulus very narrow; the metapostnotum with longitudinal ridges; the mesopleural fovea closed; and the mesopleural suture opened, whereas A. pulchripennis has the body black; the clypeus very short, with apical margin angulate, and clypeal carina hardly distinct from clypeus; the antennal scrobe ecarinate; the ocelli small; the notaulus narrow; the metapostnotum without longitudinal ridges; the mesopleural fovea opened; and the mesopleural suture closed.

CNCI

Canadian National Collection Insects

INPA

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia

MPEG

Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi

UFES

Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Anisepyris

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