Anisepyris bregolasi 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 bregolasi

description: Anisepyris bregolasi Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 6J; 8F; 8N; 9D)
Description, female. Body length 6.31 mm. Head with dark green reflection; mesosoma with dark green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous, lightening posterad. Head wide. Mandible with four distal teeth, very wide, strongly angled, teeth not equally sized each other. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short, with apical margin truncate; median clypeal carina elevated upward and with upper margin straight in lateral profile. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctured and transverse pronotal carina with margin foveolate; 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 closed; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments densely setose. Genitalia. T9 with slender and with dorsal lap swollen posteriorly; 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, Espírito Santo, Linhares, cultura de coco, 50m, 19°25'S 40°04'W, 3.x.2008, arm[adilha] Möricke, E.F. Comério col[etor] (UFES 77849). Paratypes (13). BRAZIL, Amazonas, 1 ♀, Carolina, Serra Grande, 07°04'28"S 47°24'12"W, 13.xii.2001, [armadilha] Malaise, F. Oliveira & J. Vidal col[etores] (INPA); Pernambuco, 1 ♀, Recife, Parque dos Dois Irmãos, arm[adilha] Möericke, 34°56'31"W, 08°00'37.7"S 21–24.vii.2002, STP Amarante & eq[uipe] col[etores] (UFES 296372); Bahia, 1 ♀, Ilhéus, Mata Esperança, 560m, 14°46'S 39°04'W, 15–18.v.2002, arm[adilha] Malaise—Trilha 3, Penteado-Dias & eq[uipe] col[etores] (UFES 29574); 1 ♀, Itororó, Faz[enda] Guanabara, 15°03'S 39°06'W, 25.xi.2002, arm[adilha] Malaise (CEPLAC); Espírito Santo, 1 ♀, Linhares, cultura de coco, 50m, 19°25'S 40°04'W, 3.x.2008, arm[adilha] Möricke, E.F. Comério col[etor] (UFES 77849); Minas Gerais, 1 ♀, Dionísio, Faz[enda] Morro do Gavião, mata primária, 24–31.vii.2005, [armadilha] Malaise, JCR Fontenelle leg. (UFES 60473); 1 ♀, Mariléria, P[arque] E[stadual] Rio Doce, Mata do Gambá, 19°37'S 42°34'W, 31.vii–7.viii.2001, arm[adilha] Malaise, J.C.R. Fontenelle col[etor] (UFES 109130); 1 ♀, 5–12.xi.2005 (UFES 103750); 1 ♀, 12–19.xi.2005 (UFES 102902); 1 ♀, Mata Vinhático, 9–16.xi.2006 (UFES 104382); Espírito Santo, 1 ♀, Atilio Vivácqua, Fazendo Oriente, 20°58'38.6"S 41°10'10.6"W, 13–20.ii.2003, arm[adilha] Malaise, Tavares, Azevedo e eq[uipe] col[etores] (UFES 29603); 1 ♀, 20–27.ii.2003 (UFES 09864); 1 ♀, Cariacica, Res[erva] Biol [ogica] Duas Bocas, 09.ix.1996, Janela, C.O. Azevedo col[etor] (UFES 10200); PARAGUAY, Itapua, 1 ♀, Yataí, Hostettler Family, 100m, San Rafael Res [erve], 26°38'17"S 55°39'50"W, 21–25.xi.2000, FIT, Z.H. Falin [collector] (CNCI).
Distribution. Brazil: Amazonas, Pernambuci, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais; Paraguay.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. amazonicus (Westwood, 1874) by having the clypeus with median upward protruding teeth and the clypeal carina straight in profile; the eye small; and the pronotal disc with its transverse pronotal carina complete, with its margin foveolate, whereas A. amazonicus has the median lobe rounded, short; the median clypeal carina swollen; the eye large; and the pronotal disc with its transverse pronotal carina incomplete, with its margin not foveolate.
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 42-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263