Anisepyris ecuadorianus 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 ecuadorianus

description: Anisepyris ecuadorianus Evans, 1966
(Figs 17E; 17K; 18B; 18D)
Anisepyris ecuadorianus Evans, 1966, 9: 60–62.
Redescription, female. Body length 5.08 mm. Head with dark blue reflection; mesosoma with dark green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings subhyaline; metasoma castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, angled, and with lower tooth longer than others. Very short. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex straight. 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 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; metapectalpropodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments densely setose. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv longer than genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf slightly curved forward; 2vf slender, angled, and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv not curved, ventral process small, and posterior process short; 2rv not curved.
Redescription, male. Body length 3.5 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. 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 short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectalpropodeal 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 as long as paramere; paramere wide, club-shaped with apex angulate, glabrous; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus with basal portion slightly 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, Bucay, 6.X.1922, F.x. Williams col. (BPBM). ARGENTINA, Tucumán, 1 ♀, El Solidad, 11 Km W Las Cejas, 13–27 May 1967, L. Stange coll[ector] (UFES 09448).
Distribution. Ecuador; Argentina: Tucumán.
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 page 126, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263