Anisepyris aranwei 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 aranwei

description: Anisepyris aranwei Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 16C; 17K; 18A; 18C)
Description, female. Body length 4.46 mm. Head with golden-green reflection; wings bi-banded; metasoma castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, curved, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short, with apical margin truncate. Frons coriaceous; with frontal process; 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 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 present and inconspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectalpropodeal disc with short striae. 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, smoothly 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 not curved.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, BRAZIL, Acre, P[ar]q[ue] Nac [ional] Serra do Divisor, Norte, mata, 07°20'52”S 73°40'46"W, 14–15.xi.1996, arm[adilha] Malaise, E.F. Morato col[etor]. Paratypes (8). SURINAME, Paramaribo, 1 ♀, Carolina creek, 11km SE Zanderij airport, 30m, 18–20.vi.1999, FIT, Z. H. Falin, A. Gangadin (CNCI); BRAZIL, Amazonas, 1 ♀, Reserva Ducke, 06–17.vii.1992, adesiva 1m, J. Vidal & J. Vidal col[etores] (INPA); Pará, 1 ♀, Melgaço, Floresta Nacional Caxiuanã, Trilha Est[ação] Cie [ntífica] Ferreira Pena, 22.xi–25.xi.2003, arm[adilha] Möricke, A.P. Aguiar & J.D. Dias (MPEG); 1 ♀, Trilha Igarapé Ararua, 24.xi–27.xi.2003; Trilha Igarapé Curua, 14.xi–17.xi.2003; 1 ♀, 23.xi–26.xi.2003; Acre, 1 ♀, P[ar]q[ue] Nac [ional] Serra do Divisor, Norte, mata, 12–13.xi.1996, arm[adilha] Malaise, E.F. Morato col[etor] (UFES); Bahia, 1 ♀, Firmino Alves, Faz[enda] Santo Antônio, 14°59'S 39°55'W, 24.xi.2002, arm[adilha] Malaise (CEPLAC).
Distribution. Brazil: Amazonas, Pará, Acre, Bahia.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. pulchripennis by having the body with golden-green reflections; the clypeus short, with its apical margin truncate, and the clypeal carina distinct; the antennal scrobe carinate; the ocelli large; 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 clypeus very short, with apical margin angulate, and clypeal carina hardly distinct from clypeus; 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 113-114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263