Apenesia delicata Evans, 1963

Alencar, Isabel D. C. C. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2020, Revision of the world Apenesia Westwood (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), Zootaxa 4724 (1), pp. 1-72 : 19-20

Apenesia delicata Evans, 1963

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Apenesia delicata Evans 1963 , 130: 268. 352. ♀; Evans 1964, 132: 33; Gordh & Móczár 1990, 46: 202 (catalog).

Diagnosis. Female. Length 2.56 mm. Color. Body castaneous. Mandible with two apical teeth. Clypeus truncate, median carina high, angled and produced beyond margin as tooth. Eye dark, subcircular. Malar space shorter than eye length. Frons polished, punctures small and very sparse, with dark line above clypeus. Head elongate with sides parallel and vertex straight, corner broadly rounded, 1.33 × as long as wide. Dorsal pronotal area with sides parallel. Maximum width of metapectal-propodeal complex 1.77 × its minimum width. Mesotibia strongly spinose. Metasoma as long as head and mesosoma together, with long petiole, 0.5 × length of metatibia.

Material examined. Holotype ♀: JAMAICA, Gordontown , Sta 382, 4.II.1937, Chapin & Blackwelder col. ( USNM, #66015).

Distribution. Neotropical ( Jamaica).

Figures

FIGURE 25. Dorsal mesosoma. A. Apenesia azeda; B. Apenesia celiela; C. Apenesia conradti; D. Apenesia parasitica, E. Apenesia sahyadrica. Body. F. Apenesia amazonica; G. Apenesia amoena; H. Apenesia bicolor; I. Apenesia chontaica; J. Apenesia delicata. (Scale bar F–J 250µm)