Anisepyris texanus ( Evans, 1965 )

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 : 179-180

Anisepyris texanus ( Evans, 1965)

( Figs 22L ; 23D; 23H; 23I)

Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) texanus Evans, 1965 , 133: 93–95.

Anisepyris texanus ( Evans, 1965) . Combined by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 23.

Redescription, female. Body length 4 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, angled, with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous ; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. 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 conspicuous; 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 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, angled, and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv strongly curved forward, ventral process large, and posterior process short; 2rv strongly curved forward.

Redescription, male. Body length 3.6 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings sub-hyaline. Head wide. Flagellomeres short. Mandible slender, curved, and with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, very short. Frons coriaceous . Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli small. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc shorter than wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina absent; without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectalpropodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea opened; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia spinose. Genitalia. Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere wide, rounded, and with basal portion angled, glabrous; basivolsela with inner margin angled; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus basal portion convex and wide, apical portion longer basal portion and slender; apodeme wide.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, [ U.S.A.], Tex [as], Big Bend Nat [ional] P[ar]k, The Basin , Chisos Mts. , 5400', 8–14.VII.1948, visiting oak honeydew, H. E. Evans col. ( MCZH, #30941) . Allotype, ♂, MEXICO, Sin [aloa]. 8 mi. SE Elota, 19.V.1962, F. D. Parker col. ( MCZH) . BRAZIL, Espírito Santo, 2 ♀, Santa Maria de Jetibá—Faz [enda] Paulo Seick , 20°02'31.1''S 40°41'51.3"W, 29.xi–06.xii.2002, Armadilha Malaise, M.T. Tavares, C.O. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col[etores] ( UFES 29602 ; 29907).

Distribution. U.S.A.: Texas; Mexico; Brazil: Espírito Santo.

Figures

FIGURE 22. Anisepyris: megacephalus species-group. Head in dorsal profile. A. A. irmoi sp. nov.; B. A. apache (Evans, 1965); C. A. carolinianus (Evans, 1965) (♀); D. A. carolinianus (Evans, 1965) (♂); E. A. colimae Evans, 1966; F. A. delicatus Evans, 1966 (♀); G. A. delicatus Evans, 1966 (♂); H. A. inca Evans, 1966; I. A. megacephalus (Ashmead, 1893); J. A. pulchripennis (Evans, 1965); K. A. robustus Santos & Azevedo, 2000; L. A. texanus (Evans, 1965) (♀).