Anisepyris earendili 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 earendili

description: Anisepyris earendili Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 21A; 23C; 23G; 23J)
Description, male. Body length 3.92 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae. Mandible narrow and with wide teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous, projected anteriorly. Antennal scrobe carinate. Eye small, circumocular suture present. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex strongly 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 fused with first metapostnotal carina; paraspiracular carina present and inconspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal 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 bifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere longer than paramere; paramere slender, rounded, with ventral and dorsal margin straight, and base angled, glabrous; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus with basal portion convex and wide, and apical portion as long as basal and swollen; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, Pará, Canaã dos Carajás, 6.4°85'86” S 49.8° 98'73"W, 30.xi.2005, arm[adilha] Malaise, R.M. Valente & E.M. Santos col[etores] (MPEG). Paratype (1). BRAZIL, Espírito Santo, 1 ♂, Pinheiros, Res [erva] Biol [ógica] Córrego do Veado, 18°21'S 40°09'W, 09–17.vi.2001, arm[adilha] Möricke, M.T. Tavares & equipe col[etores] (UFES 63346).
Distribution. Brazil: Pará, Espírito Santo.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. olivaceus by having the body black; the clypeus rounded and short; the antennal scrobe carinate; the eye small; the notaulus wide; the mesopleuron with the lower fovea and mesopleural suture closed; the paramere distinctly longer than the basiparamere; the basivolsella with an inner marginal excavation; the cuspis ventral arm with a basal projection; and the apical portion of the aedeagus wide, whereas A. olivaceus has the body with darkish green reflection and the propodeum black; the clypeus angulate and long; the antennal scrobe carinate, but weak; the eye large; the notaulus very narrow; the mesopleuron with the lower fovea and mesopleural suture opened; the paramere longer than the basiparamere; the basivolsella straight; the cuspis ventral arm without a basal projection; and the aedeagus with the apical portion slender.
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 159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263