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

description: Anisepyris cubiceps (Evans, 1967)
Rhabdepyris cubiceps Evans, 1967, 78: 93–95.
Anisepyris cubiceps (Evans, 1967). Combined by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 23.
Redescription, female. Body length 4.5 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, curved, and with teeth hardly distinct. Median clypeal lobe angulate, very short. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli large. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; 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 absent; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea opened; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma not developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Metasomal segments glabrous.
Redescription, male. Body length 5 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres long, with sparse and short setae. Mandible narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina absent; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina absent; 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. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. Basiparamere longer than paramere; paramere wide, rounded, and with ventral and dorsal margin straight, glabrous; basivolsella with apical excavation at inner margin; cuspis with arms very short, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus with basal portion convex and slender, and apical portion as longer than basal and slender; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, MEXICO, Sinaloa, Mazatlan, 6 August 1964 (W. R. M. Mason [collector]) (CNCI). Allotype, ♂, MEXICO, Sinaloa, Mazatlan, 6 August 1964 (W. R. M. Mason [collector]) (CNCI).
Distribution. Mexico.
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 172-173, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263