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

description: Anisepyris apache (Evans, 1965)
(Figs 22B; 23D; 23G; 23J)
Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) apache Evans, 1965, 133: 91–93.
Anisepyris apache (Evans, 1965). Combined by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 23.
Redescription, female. Body length 8.4 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings subhyaline. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, curved, and step-shaped. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short, truncate at apical margin. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli very small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc longer than wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina absent; metapleural carina present and inconspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity polished. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid.
Redescription, male. Body length 4.92 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, long. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina present, incomplete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina absent; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere slender, rounded, and with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin straight, glabrous; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus with basal portion convex and wide, and apical portion shorter than basal and very slender; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, [U.S.A.], Ariz [ona], Continental Pima Co., 18.VIII.1960, sucked/cotton, G. D. Butler col. (MCZH, #30940). Allotype, ♂, MEX [ICO], Son [ora], La Aduana, 22.IV.1962, F. D. Parker & L. A. Stange col. (MCZH). MEXICO, Nayarit, 1 ♂, Acaponeta, Nay., v-4.1953, R.C. Bechtel, E.I. Schlinger collectors (UFES 55845).
Distribution. U.S.A.: Arizona; Mexico.
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 171, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263