Anisepyris halmiri 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 halmiri

description: Anisepyris halmiri Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 24G; 25E; 25F; 25J)
Description, male. Body length 2.77 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with dense 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 obtuse; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; without 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 present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea opened; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere wide, rounded, and with ventral and dorsal margin straight, sparsely setose; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms very short, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus with basal portion convex and slender, and apical portion as long as basal and wide; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, Goiás, Alto Paraíso, P [ar]q[ue] Nac [ional] Chapada do Veadeiros, 14°00'S 47°41'W, 07–15.ix.2005, arm[adilha] Malaise, Aguiar & eq[uipe] col[etor] (MZSP). Paratypes (10). BRAZIL, Goiás, 1 ♂, Alto Paraíso, P [ar]q[ue] Nac [ional] Chapada do Veadeiros, 14°00'S 47°41'W, 07–13.ix.2005, arm[adilha] Malaise, Aguiar & eq[uipe] col[etor] (MZSP); 1 ♂, 07–23.ix.2005; 2 ♂, 12–24.ix.2005; 3 ♂, 15–25.ix.2005; 1 ♂, 10–12.ix.2005, arm[adilha] Möricke; 1 ♂, 14–16.ix.2005; 1 ♂, 17–19.ix.2005.
Distribution. Brazil: Goiás.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. dentatus by having the clypeus with the median lobe angulate, short, and with the clypeal carina higher than frons level; the antennal scrobe ecarinate; the frontal angle of the ocellar triangle obtuse; the ocelli large; the paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; the basivolsella straight; the paramere shorter than the basiparamere; the cuspis with the arms very short; and the aedeagus with the basal portion convex and slender, whereas A. dentatus has the clypeus with the median lobe rounded, long, with the clypeal carina lower than frons level; the antennal scrobe carinate, but weak; the frontal angle of the ocellar triangle acute; the ocelli small; the paraspiracular carina absent; the basivolsella excavated at the inner apical margin; the paramere as long as the basiparamere; the cuspis with the arms short; and the aedeagus with the basal portion angled and wide.
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 191-192, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263