Epyris darani Terayama 2006

Lim, Jongok, Lee, Jongwook, Koh, Sanghyun, Lee, Bongwoo, Azevedo, Celso O. & Lee, Seunghwan, 2011, Taxonomy of Epyris Westwood (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) from Korea, with the descriptions of ten new species, Zootaxa 2866, pp. 1-38 : 6-7

2. Epyris darani Terayama 2006

( Figs 11–20 )

Epyris darani Terayama 2006: 96 . Figs 223, 224, 3.

Material examined. Korea: 2 3, Hanseo University, Daegok-ri, Haemi-myeon, Seosan-si, CN, MT, 36°41'30"N, 126°34'50"E, 29.IX–10.X.2009, J. Lee leg.

Diagnosis. Body length ~2.0 mm ( Fig. 11 ); LFW ~ 1.5 mm ( Fig. 16 ). Vertex slightly convex with rounded corners. Temple profile divergent anterad. Mandible black except apical half castaneous. Legs dark castaneous except fore tarsi light castaneous. Mandible with five teeth, upper four teeth small and lowest tooth most long and sharpened ( Fig. 13 ). Clypeus with rounded median lobe. First five antennal segments in ratio of 1.3: 1.0: 1.0: 1.3: 1.4 in length, flagellomere 1 1.6 × as long as wide, flagellomere 11 3.1 × as long as wide ( Fig. 14 ). Frons strongly coriaceous ( Fig. 12 ). Eye hairy. HE 1.0 × OOL, WF 2.1 × WOT. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse. Pronotal disc 0.7 × as long as wide ( Fig. 15 ). Scutellar pit oval, each pit separated from each other by 1.8 × as its maximum diameter. Propodeal disc 0.9 × as long as wide with median discal carina. Metacarpus 0.8 × as long as pterostigma; transverse-median vein slightly arched ( Fig. 16 ). Apical margin of hypopygium concave ( Fig. 20 ). Basiparamere shorter than paramere ( Fig. 19 ). Paramere spoon-shaped. Cuspis divided into two short lobes. Digitus apex aligned with cuspis apex. Aedeagus apex surpassing cuspis apex ( Fig. 19 ).

Variation. Mandible black except apical half to apex castaneous; fore tarsi light castaneous to light castaneous; TL 1.97–2.21 mm; propodeal disc 0.9–0.95 × as long as wide; scutellar pit separated from each other by 1.5– 1.9 × as its maximum diameter.

FEMALE. Unknown.

Distribution. Korea (CN), Japan (Honshu, Izu Islands).

Remarks. This species was known from Japan ( Terayama 2006), now recorded for the first time from Korea. This is smallest Epyris species in Korea.

Figures

FIGURES 11 – 20. Epyris darani (male). 11. Habitus; 12. Head; 13. Mandible and clypeus; 14. Antenna; 15. Pronotum and mesonotum; 16. Fore wing; 17. Propodeum; 18. Metasoma; 19. Genitalia, ventral view; 20. Hypopygium, ventral view. Scale bar: 0.10 mm for 13, 19, 20; 0.20 mm for 12, 15 – 18, 0.30 mm for 14; 0.50 mm for 11.