Apenesia proxima Kieffer, 1904

Alencar, Isabel D. C. C. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2020, Revision of the world Apenesia Westwood (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), Zootaxa 4724 (1), pp. 1-72 : 34-35

Apenesia proxima Kieffer, 1904

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Apenesia proxima Kieffer 1904 , 41: 364, 367. ♀; Kieffer 1908, 76: 25 (catalog); Kieffer 1914, 41: 392, 396; Gordh & Móczár 1990, 46: 210 (catalog).

Diagnosis. Female. Length 5.0 mm. Color. Body castaneous, metasoma dark castaneous. Mandible with three apical teeth. Clypeus extending back frons, median lobe with apical margin almost straight, apical margin with bristles, median carina absent. Eye dark, oval, with about six facets. Malar space longer than eye size. Frons aciculate, punctures small and very sparse. Head subquadrate with sides subparallel, vertex slightly concave, 1.0 × as long as wide. Dorsal pronotal area with sides nearly parallel, anterior margin with median emargination. Maximum width of metapectal-propodeal complex 1.6 × its minimum width. Mesopleuron without longitudinal carina dividing dorsal and lateral faces. Mesotibia strongly spinose. Metasoma slightly longr than head and mesosoma together, petiole long.

Material examined. Holotype ♀: [ PAPUA NEW GUINEA], N. Guinea S. E. Hughibagu, V–IX.91, Loria [coll.] ( MSNG).

Comments. The holotype was examined during a visit to MSNG. According to Kieffer (1904), this species is similar to A. nigra .

Distribution. Australian ( Papua New Guinea).

Figures

FIGURE 26. Body. A. Apenesia dominica; B. Apenesia flavipes; C. Apenesia formosa; D. Apenesia levis, E. Apenesia nigra; F. Apenesia proxima; G. Apenesia substriata; H. Apenesia unicolor; I. Apenesia vaurieorum. (Scale 250µm).