Kaysara levicrenata Carnimeo & Noll 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Carnimeo, Fernando Henrique
name: Noll, Fernando Barbosa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Tiphiidae
Kaysara
Kaysara levicrenata

description: Kaysara levicrenata Carnimeo, sp. nov.
(Figs 56–61, 109, 119)
Holotype. BRAZIL: Parque Nacional do Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, 12/ii/2015, 1♂ (R.F. Monteiro and eq. col.) (UFRJ). Paratypes, BRAZIL: 33♂, Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos, Rio de Janeiro, 04/i/2014 – 10/iv/2014, (R.F. Monteiro and eq. col.) (UFRJ).
Male description. Structure: Central clypeal notch shallower, with depth of about 1/6 of clypeus length. Basal region of the clypeus more convex than other species; mesopleural transverse sulcus wide and well-marked; forewings hyaline, ferruginous on the anterior margins and stigma. Marginal cell castaneus; epipygium with deep well marked punctures, except central surface smooth. Subapical surface slightly triangular; tuft of hairs emerging from a medial elevation; hypopygium subquadrate, apical margin slightly notched. Apico-lateral margins with tiny acute extensions up-folded.
Genital capsule: Dorsal surface of the basal ring more than 2x longer than its ventral surface. Depressed sublateraly with a longitudinal line medially in dorsal view; gonocoxite with 3/4 the gonostylus extension, strongly depressed basally. The apex subquadrate, feebly separated medially, with acute lateral spines. Basal region broad, narrower since the middle and curved ventrally in lateral view; aedeagus lamellate, as long as the gonocoxite, with a small rounded lobe apically; Gonostylus subquadrate, feebly narrower before the apex, with acute lateral spine on its ventral margin. With golden pubescence on the half apical region.
Coloration. Body varies from predominantly black to several yellow markings. Clypeus completely yellow, much variegated, or almost completely black. Mandibles with dark margins and teeth. Supra-antennal plates with rounded spots or completely black. Yellow or ferruginous tyloids on the flagelomeres VI–XI and tip of the XI. Bands contouring the frontal margin of the eyes, from the clypeus margin to above the supra-antennal projections. Rounded spots on the gena. Tibiae and tarsi, darker on the apical tarsomeres. Ventral surface of the forecoxae, completely yellow or predominantly black. Inner margin of the forefemur marked or completely black. Mesosoma completely black or with the following markings: pronotum with or without marginal fasciae, the anterior interrupted in the middle and posterior thinner; broad and diffuse spots on the mesopleuron; large spots on the lateral of the propodeum; two rounded spots on the metanotum. Apico-lateral margins of tergites I–IV with rounded or diffuse spots, or predominantly black. Sternites I–IV with transverse fasciae interrupted in the middle, or predominantly black.
Female: unknown.
Etymology. From Latin, levis —“slight”, “smooth”; and crena —“notch”, “incision”. Referring to the clypeal notch shallower than the other species.
Distribution. Current distribution restricted to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro state.
description: Published as part of Carnimeo, Fernando Henrique & Noll, Fernando Barbosa, 2018, On the dumping ground genus Scotaena Klug, 1810 (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Thynninae): Phylogeny, taxonomy and geographic distribution, pp. 451-490 in Zootaxa 4399 (4) on page 469, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4399.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1206764