Five new species and key for Australian Epyris Westwood (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) Author Tribull, Carly Melissa text Zootaxa 2016 4105 4 368 380 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.4.5 dcce75c2-2644-4b67-8476-3f9167ee3557 1175-5326 257131 DEF3DE51-24B4-437B-93FE-5A4C90B10B21 Epyris loisae Tribull , sp. nov. ( Figs 1 A– 1I ) Examined material . Holotype , ♀. Australia : Western Australia : 30 km ESE Three Rivers Station; Malaise trap in dry bed of Gascoyne River; 24.IV–7.V. 2003 ; M.E. Irwin and F.D. Parker leg.; 504 m ; 25°13.6'S , 118°56.9'E , #066947 [originally stored at CNC , now at ANIC ]. Paratype : 1 ♀, same locality as holotype , #066948 [ ANIC ]. Description. FEMALE ( holotype ). Body length 8.5 mm ; LFW: 3.72 mm . Color . Body black. Mandible, palpi, tip of clypeus, antennae castaneous. Metasomal segments black with castaneous borders. Leg bright castaneous with trochanter dark castaneous. Fore wing hyaline with veins light castaneous; stigma dark castaneous ( Fig. 1 ). Head . Hairy, shining surface strongly punctate with punctures deep, close together, irregularly spaced. Mandible with long setae, three teeth progressing larger posteriorly to anteriorly; lowest tooth largest and sharpened; middle tooth smaller but still sharpened; upper tooth round. Clypeus flattened apically, emarginate, with sharp median ridge and long setae. Eye small, LH 2.6 × HE, with short, erect setae. Ratios of antennomeres 4:1.4:1.5:1.3:1.2:1.2:1.2:1.2:1.1:1.1:1.0:1.1:1.8. LH 1.0 × WH, HE 1.0 × OOL, WF 2.28 × WOT, POL 1.2 × AOL. Mesosoma . Pronotal disc 0.6 × as long as wide, sculptured in same manner as head. Mesoscutum coriaceous, 1.5 × length of mesoscutellum with punctures only on posterior half; notaulus narrow anteriorly and divergent, broadening posteriorly and converging, each notaulus separated by 1.1 × posterior width. Mesoscutellum coriaceous with punctures and setae on lateral edges; scutellar pit large, subrectangular, each pit separated by 0.1 × width and slanting from center posteriorly towards lateral margin. Dorsal view of metapectal-propodeal complex 0.67 × as long as wide, strongly reticulated on shining surface; metapostnotal median carina and each metapostnotal propodeal suture reaching transverse posterior carina; strong paraspiracular carina present; posterolateral corner foveolate. Fore wing with transverse-median vein strongly arched, convex posteriorly, but not meeting anal vein. Metasoma . Petiolate and smooth; T3–T7 with sparse punctures, sparse pale setae. Remarks. Epyris loisae sp. nov. differs most obviously from E. fulvimanus in the sculpturing of the propodeum. In E. fulvimanus , the propodeum is smooth, as opposed to being strongly reticulate in E. loisae . Additionally, the posterolateral corners are strongly foveolate in E. loisae . Finally, in E. fulvimanus , only the tibia is castaneous, and the mesoscutum in E. loisae is much longer, 1.5 × the length of the mesoscutellum as opposed to being equal length in E. fulvimanus . Etymology . The species name is in memoriam to Lois Tribull, the author’s mother. Distribution . Australia (Western Australia ).