Tuberepyris codex Azevedo et Mugrabi, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Azevedo, Celso O.
name: Mugrabi, Daniele F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Tuberepyris
Tuberepyris codex

description: Tuberepyris codex Azevedo et Mugrabi, sp. nov.
(Figs 4–6, 20–22)
Description. Female. Body length 2.45 mm. LFW 1.16 mm. Body entirely flattened, head 0.3x as high as long in lateral view.
Color. Head, dorsum and lateral of mesosoma, antenna dark castaneous; venter of mesosoma, mandible, legs (except tarsi), wing venation, posterior half of metasoma castaneous; palpi, tarsi, anterior half of metasoma light castaneous; wings hyaline.
Head (Figs 4–5). Mandible slender, with four visible sharpened apical teeth; lowermost one large. Clypeus short; slightly projected, median lobe trapezoidal with apical margin roundly concave; medially elevated, but not carinate. Carina fronto-clypeal absent. Eye flat, with minute and sparse setae. First four antennomeres in ratio of about 11:6:3:4; flagellomere I as long as wide; flagellomere IX distinctly longer than wide. Frons coriaceous with just few small punctures. LH 1.4x WH; WF 0.94x HE; VOL 1.03x HE; OOL 1.43x WOT. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocellar triangle almost touching vertex. Vertex straight; corner rounded. Side of head almost parallel behind eye. Occipital carina absent. First two maxillar palpomeres distinctly shorter and wider than others, III-IV distal ones progressively wider apicad. Labial palpomeres shorter than maxillar ones.
Mesosoma (Fig. 4–6). Pronotal disc with top surface 2.2x as long as mesoscutum; ecarinate. Pronotal collar without groove. Mesoscutum with parapsidal furrow narrow, straight, absent on anterior half of mesoscutum, almost reaching tegula. Mesoscutum-mesoscutellar sulcus absent. Forewing fully developed; 3.1x as long as wide; subcostal vein 0.27x as long as LFW; median vein present in proximal region, 0.1x as long as subcostal vein; pterostigma small and triangular (Fig. 21). Hind wing with three distal hamuli (Fig. 22). Propodeal disc coriaceous, 1.15x as long as median width, progressively narrowing posteriorly; transverse posterior and lateral carinae absent; median carina absent; lateral of propodeum coriaceous with spiracles circular; declivity of propodeum coriaceous without median or lateral carinae. Anterior margin of propleuron almost reaching anterior margin of pronotal disc level in dorsal view. Mesopleuron (Fig. 20) with subtegular groove poorly outlined; lower and anterior foveae absent, mesopleural pit inconspicuous and shallow. Profemur 2.27x longer than wide.
Metasoma. Not petiolate; polished; 1.55x longer than mesosoma. Tergite II slightly longer tergite I, posterior margin slightly excavated medially.
Male unknown.
Material examined. Holotype. ♀. SOUTH AFRICA, E Cape, Blauwe Krans Farm, (12.8 km 216º SW Kirkwood), 33º30.747’S 25º24.644’E, 13-15.Feb 2001, S van Noort, Malaise trap, VB01-A3T-M43, Valley Bushweld (goat trashed) (SAM-HYM P043936).
Distribution. South Africa.
Etymology. The specific epithet codex is a noun in apposition and refers to the short size of the median vein of the forewing.
description: Published as part of Azevedo, Celso O. & Mugrabi, Daniele F., 2014, Three new species of Tuberepyris Lanes et Azevedo (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with amended diagnosis of the genus, pp. 556-564 in Zootaxa 3794 (4) on page 562, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3794.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/225285