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Anisepyris werneri

Description

Anisepyris werneri (Evans, 1965)

(Figs 23A; 23D; 23H; 23I)

Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) werneri Evans, 1965, 133: 89–90.

Anisepyris werneri (Evans, 1965). Combined by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 23.

Redescription, female. Body length 5.46 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, curved, and step-shaped. Median clypeal lobe rounded, very short; median clypeal carina indistinct from clypeus. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli very small. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; 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 opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv slightly longer than genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf slightly curved forward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly.

Redescription, male. Body length 4.2 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short. Mandible slender, curved, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina absent; without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectalpropodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and inconspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity polished. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea opened; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia not spinose. Genitalia. Basiparamere longer than paramere; paramere slender, rounded, and with basal portion angled, glabrous; basivolsella with inner margin angled; cuspis with arms very short, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus basal portion convex and wide, apical portion as long as basal portion and slender; apodeme slender.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, U.S.A., Arizona, Globe, Gila Co [unty], 3600 ft, mesquite—oak, 33°47'28"N 110°50'11"W, July 8–1949, F. Werner & W. Nutting (USNM). Allotype, ♂, [U.S.A.], Ariz [ona], 19 mi. N Globe, [Gila Co.], 20.VI.1957, Mesquite, F. Werner & G. Butler col. (MCZH).

Distribution. U.S.A.: Arizona; Mexico.

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 180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MCZH , USNM
Event date
1949-07-08 , 1957-06-20
Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Anisepyris
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Evans
Species
werneri
Taxon rank
species
Type status
allotype , holotype
Verbatim event date
1949-07-08 , 1957-06-20
Taxonomic concept label
Anisepyris werneri (Evans, 1965) sec. Barbosa & Azevedo, 2018

References

  • Evans, H. E. (1965) A revision of the genus Rhabdepyris in the Americas (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 133, 68 - 151.
  • 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.