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Anisepyris hadori Barbosa & Azevedo 2018, sp. nov.

Description

Anisepyris hadori Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.

(Figs 25L; 26L; 26M; 27B)

Description, male. Body length 3.85 mm. Head with darkish green reflection; mesosoma with darkish blue reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with sparse and short setae. Mandible very narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, polished; transverse pronotal carina complete; with 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 conspicuous; 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 not spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere shorter than paramere; paramere slender, angled, basal portion with median constriction, and dorsal margin with short basal projection, sparsely setose; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms long, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus with basal portion convex and wide, and apical portion as long as basal and wide, with apex truncate; apodeme slender.

Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, Amazonas, Manaus, BR 174 Km 41, Res [erva] 1501, 02°27'26”S 59°45'00"W, 17–31.i.1986, [armadilha] Malaise, Rocha e Silva, L.E.F. col[etores] (INPA).

Distribution. Brazil: Amazonas.

Remarks. This new species differs from A. pallidicornis by having the body with darkish blue reflection and the metapectal-propodeal disc black; the antennal scrobe carinate; the eye large; the frontal angle of the ocellar triangle acute; the ocelli large; the vertex straight; the pronotal disc with its transverse pronotal carina incomplete; the notaulus very narrow; the paramere longer than the basiparamere with its basal portion having a median constriction; the basivolsella straight; and the cuspis with the arms long, whereas A. pallidicornis has the body black; the antennal scrobe ecarinate; the eye small; the frontal angle of the ocellar triangle obtuse; the ocelli very small; the vertex convex; the pronotal disc with its transverse pronotal carina complete; the notaulus narrow; the paramere longer than the basiparamere and without the basal portion having a median constriction; the basivolsela with the basal inner margin with a projection; and the cuspis with the arms short.

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 pages 204-205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263

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Biodiversity

Collection code
INPA
Event date
1986-01-17
Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Anisepyris
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Barbosa & Azevedo
Species
hadori
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1986-01-17/31
Taxonomic concept label
Anisepyris hadori Barbosa & Azevedo, 2018