Anisepyris megacephalus ( Ashmead, 1893 )

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 : 176

Anisepyris megacephalus ( Ashmead, 1893)

( Figs 22I ; 23E; 23H; 23I)

Epyris megacephalus Ashmead, 1893 , 45: 61.

Rhabdepyris ( Trichotepyris) megacephalus ( Ashmead, 1893) . Combined by Kieffer, 1908, 76: 32. Rhabdepyris ( Rhabdepyris) megacephalus ( Ashmead, 1893) . Combined by Kieffer, 1914, 41: 355. Rhabdepyris megacephalus ( Ashmead, 1893) . Combined by Muesebeck & Walkley, 1951, 2: 729. Anisepyris megacephalus ( Ashmead, 1893) . Combined by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 23.

Redescription, female. Body length 5.38 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, strongly angled, teeth not equally sized. Median clypeal lobe angulate, very short, with apical margin truncate. Frons coriaceous ; antennal scrobe carinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli very small. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous ; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with 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 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 distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, U.S.A., California, Poway, ( San Diego Co [unty]) 32°58'12"N 117°2'19"W ( USNM 14067 ).

Distribution. U.S.A.: California.

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) (♀).