Anisepyris bregoi Barbosa & Azevedo 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Barbosa, Diego N.
name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Anisepyris
Anisepyris bregoi

description: Anisepyris bregoi Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 16G; 17J; 18A; 18E)
Description, female. Body length 5.08 mm. Head with golden-green reflection; wings subhyaline; metasoma dark castaneous, lightening posterad. Head long. Mandible with four distal teeth, narrow, curved, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous; with frontal process; antennal scrobe carinate, but weak. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctured; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and inconspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectalpropodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea closed; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv longer than genitalia body; 2vv as long as half of 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf slightly curved forward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv not curved, ventral process large, and posterior process short; 2rv not curved.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, BRAZIL, Espírito Santo, Atilio Vivacqua, Faz [enda] José Carlos Lustoza, 20°55'57.6”S 41°11'22.1"W, 20–27.ii.2003, arm[adilha] Malaise, Tavares, Azevedo e eq[uipe] col[etores] (UFES 09866). Paratypes (2). BRAZIL, Amazonas, 1 ♀, Manaus, CDC trap, 15.i–25.ii.1981, Eq [uip] J. Arias [collectors] (OSUC); Espírito Santo, 1 ♀, Atilio Vivacqua, Faz [enda] José Carlos Lustoza, 20°55'57.6"S 41°11'22.1"W, 13–20.ii.2003, arm[adilha] Malaise, Tavares, Azevedo e eq[uipe] col[etores] (UFES 09865).
Distribution. Brazil: Amazonas, Espírito Santo.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. analis by having the mandible curved, with its two lower distal teeth wide; the clypeus protruding and angulate, with the clypeal carina higher than frons level; the antennal scrobe carinate; the ocelli large; the pronotal disc without a transverse pronotal carina; the paraspiracular carina present and inconspicuous; and the mesopleural fovea and suture closed, whereas A. analis has the mandible angled, and with two upper teeth wider than others; the clypeus not protruding and rounded, and with the clypeal carina lower than frons level; the antennal scrobe weakly carinate; the ocelli small; the transverse pronotal carina present; the paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; and the mesopleural fovea and suture opened.
description: Published as part of Barbosa, Diego N. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2018, Revision of Anisepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of 135 new species, pp. 1-258 in Zootaxa 4416 (1) on pages 116-117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263