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Anisepyris amabilis

Description

Anisepyris amabilis (Fouts, 1927)

Rhabdepyris amabilis Fouts, 1927, 29: 165–166.

Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) amabilis, Fouts, 1927. Muesebeck & Walkley, 1951, 2: 729. Anisepyris amabilis (Fouts, 1927). Combined by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 23.

Diagnosis, female (extracted from Fouts, 1927). Body length 3.5 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, with upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc longer than wide, sparsely punctate; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus wide. Metapectalpropodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia not spinose.

Diagnosis, male (extracted from Fouts, 1927). Body length 3.4 mm. Head dark castaneous; mesosoma dark castaneous; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous with apex castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres long. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short, with median tooth. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctate; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened.

Distribution. U.S. A: Maryland, Virginia.

Notes

Published as part of Barbosa, Diego N. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2018, Revision of Anisepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of 135 new species, pp. 1-258 in Zootaxa 4416 (1) on page 124, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263

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Biodiversity

Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Anisepyris
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fouts
Species
amabilis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Anisepyris amabilis (Fouts, 1927) sec. Barbosa & Azevedo, 2018

References

  • Muesebeck, C. F. W. & Walkley, L. M. (1951) Family Bethylidae. In: Muesebeck, C. F. W., Krombein, K. V. & Townes, H. K. (Eds.), Hymenoptera of America North of Mexico: Synoptic Catalog. Agricultural Monograph. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., pp. 726 - 734.
  • Waichert, C. & Azevedo, C. O. (2009) Phylogenetic analysis of Rhabdepyris (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) and redefinition of generic limits based on structural characters. Zootaxa, 2284, 1 - 29.