Revision of the world Apenesia Westwood (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) Author Alencar, Isabel D. C. C. Author Azevedo, Celso O. text Zootaxa 2020 2020-01-20 4724 1 1 72 journal article 24304 10.11646/zootaxa.4724.1.1 852c6d59-9547-436d-9f06-60fc6fd51922 1175-5326 3612936 8D8CD63D-858F-44B1-9EA1-7CBB7F30D72D Apenesia chontalica Westwood, 1881 ( Fig. 25.I ) Apenesia chontalica Westwood 1881 , 131, pl 7, fig. 3. ♀ ; Cameron 1888 , 1: 448; Dalla Torre 1898 , 5: 558 (catalog); Kief- fer,1908, 76, 25 (catalog); Kieffer 1914 , 41: 392, 395; Evans 1963 , 130: 269, 358–359, figs 132, 134; Evans 1964 , 132: 32, Figs 13 , 15 ; Gordh & Móczár 1990 , 46: 201 (catalog). Diagnosis. Female. Length 7.0 mm. Color. Body castaneous. Mandible with two apical teeth. Clypeus extending back frons, broad short trapezoidal median lobe, margin with few bristles. Eye dark, elliptical, with about 12 facets. Malar space slightly shorter than eye length. Frons nearly polished, punctures small and very sparse. Head subquadrate, 0.95 × as long as wide, sides convex, vertex straight, occipital carina visible in dorsal view. Dorsal pronotal area with lateral margin parallel, sides diverging downward. Maximum width of metapectal-propodeal complex 1.6 × its minimum width, slope between metapectal-propodeal complex and declivity rounded. Mesotibia strongly spinose. Metasoma much longer than head and mesosoma together, petiole very short. Material examined. Non type ♀ : MEX [ICO], in decayed, log. {?= 10g }, XII’.20’, Laredo, 24745, lot #41-459 [det. by Evans, 1962] ( USNM ). Comments. Type material was not available for this study. The type material is supposed be deposited at OXUM , but we were not able to find it there . Distribution. Neotropical ( Mexico , Guatemala , Nicaragua , Costa Rica ).