Eupsenella maya Ramos &amp; Azevedo, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Ramos, Magno S.
name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Eupsenella
Eupsenella maya

description: <i>Eupsenella maya</i> Ramos &amp; Azevedo, sp. nov. (Figs 41, 86, 131) <b>Description.</b> FEMALE (holotype). Body length 7.29 mm. LFW 1.61 mm. <i>Coloration.</i> Head dark castaneous almost black; scape, pedicel and flagellum dark castaneous; mandible castaneous with teeth dark castaneous; palpi light castaneous; mesosoma dark castaneous almost black; tegula light castaneous; wing venation castaneous; procoxa dark castaneous almost black; mesocoxa castaneous; metacoxa dark castaneous; trochanters light castaneous; profemur dark castaneous; mesofemur, metafemur and tarsi castaneous; metasoma dark castaneous with light castaneous portions along its length. <i>Head</i> (Fig. 41). Head as long as wide, subrectangular in profile; gena weakly concave in profile. Mandible with base wider than apex, two lowermost teeth larger than upper ones, lower tooth curved inward, lower margin strongly setose. Clypeus coriaceous-punctate, median clypeal lobe angulate, median concavity of median clypeal lobe absent, 0.11 LH, well marked off from frons, median carina present, 0.35 LH. Malar space conspicuous, 0.53 slightly concave. Area between the anterior margin of eyes and demarkation of median clypeal lobe 0.23 LH. Eye not protuberant, 0.44 LH, with sparse hairs, located more laterally, lower margin without strong depression. Frons coriaceous-punctate. WH 1.0 LH. WF 0.66 WH. WF 1.25 HE. OOL 1.0 WOT. VOL 0.42 HE. Distance from posterior ocellus to vertex crest 1.0 DAO. Ocelli small, DAO 0.09 WF, ocellar triangle not compact, distance between posterior ocelli 3.75 DAO, anterior ocellus not surpassing imaginary top eye line, posterior ocellus almost reaching vertex. Vertex straight, long setae, 0.35 LH, temple profile slightly convergent in dorsal view, with corner convex, not projected postero-laterad. Hipostomal carina straight, low. <i>Mesosoma</i> (Fig. 86). Pronotal disc coriaceous-punctate, 0.63 as long as wide, anterior corner angulate, posterior margin concave medially, pronotal disc without short longitudinal furrow. Parapsidal furrow wholly conspicuous. Notauli convergent posterad. Mesoscutum 0.55 length pronotal disc. Scutellum coriaceouspunctate, 0.59 length pronotal disc, almost flat in profile, posterior margin convex medially, scutellar pit elliptical, dilated, distant each other 7.0 its own diameter. Dorsal axillar surface with fovea almost circular. Metanotum with median region high, coriaceous-puncticulate, as high as scutellum in profile, with fovea elliptical laterally. Propodeal disc wider than long; anterior margin without foveolate or transverse furrow; median carina 0.92 length propodeal disc, complete posterad; discal carina 0.32 length propodeal disc, converging posterad, straight; space between median and discal carina confused-rugulose. Mesopleuron with subtegular furrow elliptical; mesepimeral suture almost inconspicuous posterad; mesopleural epicoxal lobe inconspicuous. Propleuron with sequence of foveae from anterior margin of prosternum until cervical collar absent. Prosternum with median excavation complete, median suture present. Mesopectus with posterior depression composed by two large foveae almost fused; median suture evident. <i>Wings.</i> Brachypterous. Forewing (Fig. 131) with 1M cell subtriangular; 1M and 1R1 cells aligned basally; C cell widening distally; 1R1 cell present, distinctly longer than 2R1 cell, evenly wide; Rs <i>b</i> straight; 2R1 cell short. Distal margin of Rs <i>c</i> slightly angulate; r-rs vein almost vertical; R1 <i>b</i> almost inconspicuous, but entirely on anterior margin of forewing; Cu <i>b</i> absent; Rs+M vein 0.25 Rs <i>a</i>; M vein 0.33 Rs <i>a</i>; Rs <i>a</i> subperpendicular to anterior margin of forewing; stigma triangular; distal stigmal margin truncate. <i>Legs.</i> Profemur swollen, 0.48 as wide as long. Metacoxa with median region 0.52 as wide as long. Metacoxal projection in dorsal region conspicuous, apex rounded. <i>Metasoma.</i> 0.31 as wide as long, except first two tergites, ventral carina of petiole present. MALE. Unknown. <b>Material examined.</b> <i>Holotype</i> &amp;female;. AUSTRALIA, A[ustralian] C[apital] T[erritory], 35.22S 148.50E, Blundells C [ree]k, 850 m, 3 km E, Piccadilly Circus, Oct[ober] 1985, LawrenceWeir, Johnson, flight intercept / window trough trap, ANIC. <i>Paratypes</i>. AUSTRALIA, N[ew] S[outh] W[ales], 13 &amp;female;, 34.34S 150.40E, Macquarie Pass, 7 Km ENE, Robertson, 8 Feb [ruary] 1984, I.D.Naumann, ex[tracted] ethanol, ANIC; A[ustralian] C[apital] T[erritory], 35.22S 148.50E, Blundells C [ree]k, 850 m, 3 km E of Piccadilly Circus, 27 Jan [uary] 1982, J. Lawrence, ANIC; 1 &amp;female;, Dec [ember] 1984, Weir, Lawrence, Johnson, flight intercept window/ trough trap, ANIC. <b>Distribution.</b> Australia (Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales). <b>Variation.</b> Body length 4.53–6.42 mm; LFW 1.28–1.66 mm; first medial cell (1M) absent, forewing with 1R1 cell elliptical, C cell almost inconspicuous, Rs <i>b</i> slightly convex. <b>Remarks.</b> This species is similar to <i>E. larrakia</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> by having the area between the anterior margin of eyes and demarkation of median clypeal lobe long, the ocelli small and brachypterous <i>Wings.</i> However this species has the median clypeal lobe angulate, the forewing with 1R1 cell of forewing closed, the 1M cell of forewing present, whereas <i>E. larrakia</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> has the median clypeal lobe truncate, the forewing with 1R1 cell of forewing opened and the 1M cell of forewing absent.
description: Published as part of <i>Ramos, Magno S. &amp; Azevedo, Celso O., 2012, Revision of Eupsenella Westwood, 1874 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 3539 (1)</i> on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3539.1.1