Revision of Anisepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of 135 new species
Author
Barbosa, Diego N.
Author
Azevedo, Celso O.
text
Zootaxa
2018
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journal article
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Anisepyris aurichalceus
(
Westwood, 1874
)
(
Figs 4F
; 5H; 5P; 6B)
Epyris aurichalceus
Westwood, 1874
, 4: 160–161.
Anisepyris aurichalceus
Westwood, 1874
. Combined by Kieffer, 1905, 24: 96.
Anisepyris viridis
Kieffer, 1908
, 32: 9. Synonym by
Evans, 1964
, 132: 99.
Anisepyris viridellus
Kieffer, 1914
, 41: 438. New name for
A. viridis
Kieffer
nec
Cameron, Evans, 1959, 54: 71.
Anisepyris cubensis
Fouts, 1928
, 30: 125. Synonym by
Evans, 1964
, 132: 99.
Redescription, female.
Body length
6.31 mm
. Head with dark green reflection; mesosoma with dark green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings subhyaline; metasoma castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, angled, and step-shaped. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short; median clypeal carina hardly distinct from clypeus. With frontal process; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli very small. Vertex concave. Pronotal disc as long as wide, polished; transverse pronotal carina present, incomplete; 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 absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina absent; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity polished. 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 bifid. 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 long; 1vf strongly curved forward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv slightly curved forward, ventral process small, and posterior process long; 2rv slightly curved forward.
Diagnosis, male
(extracted from
Evans, 1964
). Body length
4–6 mm
. Head with golden-green reflection; mesosoma with golden-green reflection; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous with apex castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres long. Mandible slender, slightly angled, and with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons
coriaceous
. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocelli large. Vertex straight. Sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Metapectal-propodeal disc short. Mesotibia spinose. Claws bifid.
Genitalia.
Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere wide, angled, and with ventral margin concave and dorsal margin convex, sparsely setose; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms long, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus basal portion convex and slender, apical portion shorter than basal portion and wide; apodeme wide.
Material examined.
Lectotype (
E. aurichalceus
Westwood, 1874
), here designated. Female. CUBA (OXUM). Male. CUBA,
Sancti Spíritus,
Jatibonico, 21°56'47"N 79°10'03"W,
16.vii.
[19]29, taken on leaves of
Terminalia
sp., L.C. Scaramuzza [collector] (UFES 09367).
Distribution.
U.S.A.
:
Florida
;
Cuba
;
Puerto Rico
; St. Thomas;
St. Kitts
.