Revision of Anisepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of 135 new species
Author
Barbosa, Diego N.
Author
Azevedo, Celso O.
text
Zootaxa
2018
4416
1
1
258
journal article
30136
10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1
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1175-5326
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Anisepyris occidentalis
(
Ashmead, 1893
)
(
Figs 14A
; 14B; 14K; 14M; 15A; 15J; 15L)
Epyris occidentalis
Ashmead, 1893
, 45: 58,59.
Anisepyris puntaticeps
Kieffer, 1906
, 30: 139. Synonym by Evans, 1959, 61: 159.
Rhabdepyris occidentalis
(
Ashmead, 1893
)
. Combined by Kieffer, 1908, 76: 32.
Anisepyris occidentalis
(
Ashmead, 1893
)
. Combined by Evans, 1959, 61: 109.
Redescription, female.
Body length
3.33 mm
. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, slightly angled, and with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe rounded, very short, with blunt median tooth; median clypeal carina hardly distinct from clypeus. Frons
coriaceous
; antennal scrobe carinate, but weak. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocelli very small. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina present; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow; posterior mesoscutellar sulcus present. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergent to first pair of metapostnotal carina; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea closed; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws bifid. Metasomal segments glabrous.
Genitalia.
T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv slightly longer than genitalia body; 2vv as long as half of 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf slightly curved forward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv slightly curved forward, ventral process large, and posterior process long; 2rv slightly curved forward.
Redescription, male.
Body length
4.38 mm
. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae, with tooth projection at second and third flagellomere. Mandible narrow, curved, step-shaped. Median clypeal lobe angulate, very short, with tooth at apical margin. Frons
coriaceous
. Antennal scrobe carinate and reaching eye. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc shorter than wide, strongly
coriaceous
; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus wide. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; 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 closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Mesotibia spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous.
Genitalia.
Basiparamere longer than paramere; paramere slender, rounded, and with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin concave, sparsely setose; basivolsella with apical excavation at inner margin and projection; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm wide; digitus with basal projection overlapping aedeagus basal portion; aedeagus with basal portion angled and wide, and apical portion shorter than basal, slender and swollen.; apodeme slender.
Material
examined.
U.S.A.
,
California
,
1 ♀
,
Tassajara Hot Spr
[ing]s, v-26.54,
Lot
54–56,
Owen Brian Collection
(
CASC
)
;
Florida
,
1 ♂
,
Leon Co
[unty],
Apalachicola Nat
[ional]
Forest
, "ant heaven",
Malaise trap
,
30°19.751'N
84°30.309'W
,
20–27.vi.2005
,
Ronquist
col[lector] (
AMNH
)
.
Distribution.
U.S.A.
:
California
,
Florida
;
Mexico
.