Rhabdepyris quinquilineatus Kieffer, 1906

Stein, P. R. W. & Azevedo, C. O., 2007, Synopsis of lobatifrons species-group (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae, Rhabdepyris) from Neotropical region, with redefinition of the group, Zootaxa 1444 (1), pp. 23-34 : 32

Rhabdepyris quinquilineatus Kieffer, 1906

( Fig. 35–36 )

Rhabdepyris quinquilineatus Kieffer, 1906: 248 , 249; Kieffer, 1908: 32; Kieffer, 1914: 348, 360; Evans, 1964: 95; Evans, 1965: 114, 116, 117, 123–125; Evans, 1967: 95; Gordh & Móczár, 1990: 152.

This species was known from Mexico and El Salvador. Here, it is recorded for the first time from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Brazil (Pará). In this series, mandible with four apical teeth, uppermost tooth larger than subupper; frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute, right or obtuse; temple divergent; lower fovea of mesopleuron with upper median margin wholly outlined; paramere with apex wide or sometimes narrow, dorsal margin concave.

The mandible of the types series has five teeth, but all specimens here analized have one tooth less ( Fig. 35 ). This intraspeficic variation is not very frequent within bethylid species. We have seen this in few species of Apenesia Westwood, 1874 (unpublished data) and in R. luteipennis .

Material examined. GUATEMALA, D[e]p[artamen]to Zacapa, 1 male, 8 km E El Rancho , 14 o 55'N 89 o 57'W, 350 m, 28–29.V.1997, M[alaise] t[rap], MEIrwin, MAMetz, SDGaimari, KCHolston, SWenterton, L. L. Yang col. ( UCDC) . NICARAGUA, Masaya, 1 male, Las Flores , 1.VIII.1994, Mal [aise] trap, J. M. Maes col. ( SEAN) ; Granada, Volcan Mombacho, Mal [aise] trap, J. M. Maes col. ( SEAN) , El Progresso 1 , 3 males, 16.III.1998, 2 males, 2.VI.1998, 5 males, 30.VI.1998; El Progresso 2 , 2 males, 31.III.1998, 2 males, 21.VI.1998; El Progresso 3 , 2 males, 31.III.1998, 4 males, 15.IV.1998, 9 males, 30.IV.1998, 50 males, 15.V.1998; San Joaquim 1, 1 male, 16.III.1998, 6 males, 31.III.1998; San Joaquim 2, 2 males, 16.III.1998, 3 males, 15.IV.1998, 2 males, 30.IV.1998, 11 males, 15.V.1998; San Joaquim 3, 3 males, 30.IV.1998, 9 males, 15.V.1998, 6 males, 21.VI.1998; Santa Ana 1, 8 males, 15.V.1998, 21 males, 2.VI.1998, 3 males, 30.VII.1998; Santa Ana 2, 1 male, 31.III.1998, 15 males, 15.V.1998, 6 males, 21.VI.1998, 7 males, 30.VI.1998, 7 males, 15.VII.1998; Santa Ana 3, 1 male, 16.III.1998, 12 males, 15.V.1998; 3 males, no locality and date; [Rivas], San Juan del Sur , 11 o 15'N 85 o 52'W, M[alaise] t[rap], L. J. Clark col. ( UCDC) , 2 males, 29.II.1998, 4 males, 10.III.1998, 13 males, 15.IV.1998, 6 males, 3.V.1998. TRINIDAD, [ Saint George ], Curepe, M [alaise] t[rap], Maison col. ( CNCI) , 2 males, 29.XII.1977, 1 male, 17.XII.1978; Simla n[ea]r Arima, 250 m, rain for[est], 25.XII–31.XII.1997, W. R. M. Mason col. ( CNCI) ; BRAZIL, Pará, São João Pirabas, Japerica , 20– 22.XII.1992, Malaise trap, J. dias col. ( MPEG) .

Figures

FIGURES 23–45. 23–29. Rhabdepyris demissus sp. nov. holotype. 23. Head and mesosoma in dorsal view; 24. Mandible in frontal view; 25. Antenna in frontal view; 26. Mesopleuron in frontal view; 27–29. Genitalia. 27. Ventral view; 28. Dorsal view; 29. Lateral view. 30–31. R. demissus sp. nov. holotype. 30. Propodeal disc in dorsal view; 31. Appendicular process in lateral view. 32–34. Appendicular process of R. septemlineatus. 35–36. R. quinquilineatus. 35. Mandible in frontal view; 36. Aedeagus in ventral view. 37–45. R. luteipennis. 37. Aedeagus in ventral view. 38. Mesopleuron with long upper fovae in lateral view; 39. Mesopleuron with short upper fovae in lateral view; 40. Mandible in dorsal view; 41. Propodeal disc in dorsal view; 42. Notaulus in dorsal view; 43. Mandible in dorsal view; 44. Propodeal disc in dorsal view; 45. Notaulus in dorsal view. (scale bar = 250µm).