Anisepyris insularis

Anisepyris insularis (Ashmead, 1894)

(Figs 13H; 14J; 15G; 15M)

Epyris insularis Ashmead, 1894, 25: 189.

Anisepyris insularis (Ashmead, 1894). Combined by Evans, 1964, 132: 99.

Redescription, male. Body length 3.69 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae. Mandible very narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate, but weak. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow; posterior mesoscutellar sulcus present. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergent to first metapostnotal carina; paraspiracular carina present and inconspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectalpropodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. Basiparamere longer than paramere; paramere slender, rounded, and with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin straight, sparsely setose; basivolsella with apical excavation at inner margin; cuspis with arms very short, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus with basal portion angled and slender, and apical portion shorter than basal, wide and swollen; apodeme slender.

Material examined. Lectotype. Male. SAINT VICENT, 13°15'N 61°12'W, H.H. Smith (USNM).

Distribution. Saint Vicent.