Anisepyris glorfindeli 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 glorfindeli

description: Anisepyris glorfindeli Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 21G; 23B; 23F; 23I)
Description, 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 wide, curved, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short; median clypeal carina hardly distinct from clypeus. Frons coriaceous, with frontal sulcus very short. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina present, incomplete; without 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 present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; 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 not spinose. Claws bifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere shorter than paramere; paramere wide, rounded, with ventral and dorsal margin convex, and with basal region slender, densely setose; basivolsella straight and angled; cuspis with arms long, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus with basal portion convex and slender, and apical portion shorter than basal and slender; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, Distrito Federal, Res [erva] Ecol [ógica] IBGE, Km 0 BR251, 15°56'49”S 47°52'39"W, 24–31.x. [19]80, 3A-49–1J (IBGE). Paratypes (22). BRAZIL, Distrito Federal, 1 ♂, Res [erva] Ecol [ógica] IBGE, Km 0 BR251, 9–16.xi [19]79, 3A-22-1J (IBGE); 2 ♂, 16–23.xi [19]79, J-1; 3 ♂, 21–28.xii [19]79, 3A-26-1J; 2 ♂, 11–18.vii [19]80, 3A-41-1J; 1 ♂, 15–22.viii [19]80, 3A-44-1J; 2 ♂, 29.viii–5.ix. [19]80, 3A-45-1J; 1 ♂, 12–19.ix. [19]80, 3A-46-1J; 2 ♂, 10–17.x. [19]80, 3A-48-1J; 1 ♂, 24–31.x. [19]80, 3A-49-1J; 1 ♂, 07–14.xi. [19]80, 3A-50-1J; 1 ♂, 21–28.xi. [19]80, 3A-51-1J; 1 ♂, 2 ♂, 05–12.xii. [19]80, 3A-52-1J; 1 ♂, 28.vii –i.x.[19]81, J-1; 1 ♂, 30.ix–7.x. [19]82, 3A-116-5J; 1 ♂, 21–28.x. [19]82, 3A-119-1J.
Distribution. Brazil: Distrito Federal.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. colimae by having the mandible with the two upper teeth wider than others; the clypeus short, with the anterior margin without a median tooth, and the clypeal carina hardly distinct from the clypeus; the antennal scrobe ecarinate; the frons with a frontal sulcus; the ocelli small; the transverse pronotal carina incomplete; the mesopleural suture opened; the basivolsella straight and angled; and the aedeagus with the basal portion convex and slender, whereas A. colimae has the mandible with the teeth equally wide; the clypeus long, with the anterior margin with a median tooth, and the clypeal carina distinct from the clypeus; the antennal scrobe carinate, but weak; the frons without a frontal sulcus; the ocelli large; the transverse pronotal carina complete; the mesopleural suture closed; the basivolsela with an apical excavation at the inner margin and with a short basal projection; 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 163-164, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263