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

description: Anisepyris arzimrathoni Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 16B; 17K; 18A; 18C)
Description, female. Body length 3.69 mm. Head with dark green reflection; mesosoma with dark green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, curved, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous; with frontal process; antennal scrobe carinate, but weak. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli very small. Vertex convex. 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 long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and inconspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea closed; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. 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 slightly curved forward, ventral process large, and posterior process short; 2rv strongly curved forward.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, BRAZIL, São Paulo, Descalvado, Faz [enda] Itaúnas, Cerrado, Citros, 21°54'S 47°37'W, 16.i.2008, arm[adilha] Möricke, N.W. Perioto & equipe col[etores] (UFES 80001). Paratypes (2). BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro, 1 ♀, 16.x.1984, Möricke, (UFES 10183); São Paulo, 1 ♀, Am [érico] Brasiliense, Cerradão, Clube Náutico, arm[adilha] Möricke espaço 1m, 25–29.ix.1999, MT Tavares e equipe col[etores] (UFES 20131).
Distribution. Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. pulchripennis by having the body with dark green reflection and the metapectal-propodeal disc black,; the wings clear hyaline; the antennal scrobe carinate; the ocelli very small; the notaulus very narrow; the metapostnotum with longitudinal ridges; the mesopleural fovea closed; and the mesopleural suture opened, whereas A. pulchripennis has the body black; the wings bi-banded; the antennal scrobe ecarinate; the ocelli small; the notaulus narrow; the metapostnotum without longitudinal ridges; the mesopleural fovea opened; and the mesopleural suture closed.
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 112-113, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263