Anisepyris franciscanus Evans 1966
Creators: name: Barbosa, Diego N.
name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Anisepyris
Anisepyris franciscanus

description: Anisepyris franciscanus Evans, 1966
(Figs 20A; 20D; 20F; 20H)
Anisepyris franciscanus Evans, 1966, 9: 72–74.
Redescription, female. Body length 5.23 mm. Head with dark blue reflection; mesosoma with dark green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings subhyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, slightly angled, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short; median clypeal carina inclined in lateral profile. Frons coriaceous; with frontal process; antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus wide. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae; 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 distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose; claws bifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv as long as genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf strongly curved forward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv not curved, ventral process small, and posterior process short; 2rv not curved.
Redescription, male. Body length 3.3 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline. Head wide. Flagellomeres short. Mandible narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia not spinose. Genitalia. Basiparamere shorter than paramere; paramere wide, rounded, with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin straight, and basal portion straight, glabrous; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus with basal portion angled and slender, and apical portion as long as basal, and slender; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, ECUADOR, Bucay, 6.X.1922, F.x. Williams col. (BPBM). Allotype, ♂, ECUADOR, [Napo], Tena, 17.II.1923, F.X. Willliams col. (BPBM). Genitalia slide HE 601. BRAZIL, Maranhão, 1 ♀, 18.ii.1984, [armadilha] Möricke (UFES 10190); Goiás, 1 ♀, Alto Paraíso, P [ar]q[ue] Nac [ional] Chapada do Veadeiros, 14°00'S 47°41'W, 13–15.ix.2005, arm[adilha] Möricke, Aguiar & eq[uipe] col[etor] (MZSP); Bahia, 1 ♀, Itororó, Faz[enda] Guanabara, 15°03'S 39°06'W, 25.xi.2002, arm[adilha] Malaise (CEPLAC); São Paulo, 1 ♀, Bauru, UNESP, Cerrado, 30.viii.1990, S.S. Ruiz col[etor] (UFES 10127).
Distribution. Panama; Ecuador; Brazil: Maranhão, Goiás, Bahia, São Paulo.
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 148-149, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263