Revision of Anisepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of 135 new species
Author
Barbosa, Diego N.
Author
Azevedo, Celso O.
text
Zootaxa
2018
4416
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journal article
30136
10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1
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dietrichorum
Barbosa & Azevedo
, species-group nov.
(
Figs 18G–N
,
19A–F
)
Females
. Head longer than wide; mandible with five distal teeth, evenly developed; clypeus short; antennal scrobe ecarinate; frontal angle of ocellar triangle about right; ocelli very small; vertex straight. Pronotal disc with transverse carina complete; parapsidal signum with anterior half continuous; metapectal-propodeal disc as long as wide; anterior margin of propodeal declivity not setose; mesopleuron with mesopleural fovea closed, lower fovea and mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia not spinose Metatrochanter with lateral expansion.
Males
. Frons
coriaceous
or weakly
coriaceous
, with metallic reflexion. Clypeus short; median clypeal carina as high as epistomal suture, in lateral view; antenna not elongate; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Pronotal disc with transverse carina complete. Metapostnotum with first pair of metapostnotal carina and metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergence absent or present; propodeal declivity with sculpture present; distinction between metapectalpropodeal disc and metapleuron distinct by sculpture difference. Mesopleuron with lower mesopleural fovea opened and mesopleural suture closed. Forewing with Cu vein indistinct of cu-a and R-rs&Rs vein distinct. Hind wing with one or two proximal and four distal hamuli. Posterior hypopygeal margin uniform. Genitalia with paramere as long as or longer than basiparamere; inner margin of basivolsella straight.
Distribution
. It is mostly from Neotropical region
Remarks
. In this species-group we found a peculiar and rare characteristic among
Anisepyris
species: the “distinction between propodeum and metapleuron with distinct texture”. This is rare in
Anisepyris
and in
Epyrinae
as a whole, but is common in
Mesitiinae
, as cited by
Barbosa & Azevedo (2011)
. Therefore, we reallocate these species from the
proteus
species-group into a new species-group under the name
dietrichorum
. This species-group is composed of 10 species (
Table 1
).