Anisepyris grisselli Evans 1979
Creators: name: Barbosa, Diego N.
name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Anisepyris
Anisepyris grisselli

description: Anisepyris grisselli Evans, 1979
(Figs 28J; 29D; 29G; 29M)
Anisepyris grisselli Evans, 1979, 81: 456–458.
Redescription, female. Body length 9.1 mm. Head with dark blue reflection; mesosoma with dark blue reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings subhyaline. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, angled. and with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe carinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina absent; 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 present and inconspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectalpropodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity polished. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea present; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia spinose.
Redescription, male. Body length 5.38 mm. Mesosoma with darkish blue reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres long, with dense and short setae. Mandible wide, slightly angled, and step-shaped. Median clypeal lobe angulate, very short; median clypeal carina hardly distinct from clypeus. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc shorter than wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. 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 strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea opened; mesopleural fovea opened; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia spinose. Claws bifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere shorter than paramere; paramere wide, angled, and with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin sinuous, sparsely setose; basivolsella with apical excavation at inner margin; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus basal portion angled and slender, apical portion shorter than basal portion and slender; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Pedernales, 30 km N Cabo Rojo, on Catalpa longisima, 20.VI.1976, E.E. Grissell col. (FSCA). Allotype, ♂, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, La Romana, Boca del Soca, dry scrub, 13.VI.1976, E.E. Grissell col. (FSCA). Paratype. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Province La Romana, 1 ♂, Boca del Soca, 13.vi.1976, E.E. Grissell [collector], Dry Scrub (USNM).
Distribution. Dominican Republic.
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 page 235, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263