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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Anisepyris pulchripennis
(
Evans, 1965
)
(
Figs 22J
; 23B; 23H; 23K)
Rhabdepyris
(
Trichotepyris
)
pulchripennis
Evans, 1965
, 133: 106–107.
Anisepyris pulchripennis
(
Evans, 1965
)
. Combined by
Waichert & Azevedo, 2009
, 2284: 23.
Redescription, female.
Body length
4 mm
. Head and mesosoma black; wings bi-banded; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, curved, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, very short; median clypeal carina hardly distinct from clypeus. Frons
coriaceous
; with frontal process; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly
coriaceous
; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotalpropodeal 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 closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous.
Genitalia.
T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv longer than genitalia body; 2vv shorter than 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf curved downward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv slightly curved forward, ventral process large, and posterior process short; 2rv not curved.
Material
examined.
Holotype
,
♀
,
COSTA RICA
,
Turrialba
,
9°54'N
83°41'W
,
24 June 1949
, (
K.W. Coper
) (
USNM
).
Distribution.
Costa
Rica
.
Remarks.
As aforementioned, this species is the only one of
pulchripennis
species-group transferred
megacephalus
species-group. All other species of the former group compose
cupreolus
species-group.