Anisepyris barahiris 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 barahiris

description: Anisepyris barahiris Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 3D; 5D; 5K; 5S)
Description, female. Body length 9 mm. Head with green reflection; mesosoma with green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings subhyaline; metasoma dark castaneous, lightening posterad. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, very wide and strongly angled, the four superior teeth hardly distinct each other, with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short, with apical margin truncate; median clypeal carina hardly distinct from clypeus and with dorsal margin straight. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctured; transverse pronotal carina present, incomplete; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; 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 opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments densely setose. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv slightly longer than genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv long; 1vf strongly curved forward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap swollen posteriorly; 1rv strongly curved forward, ventral process small, and posterior process long; 2rv strongly curved forward.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, BRAZIL, Minas Gerais, Mariléria, P[arque] E[stadual] Rio Doce, Área Tereza, 19°37'S 42°34'W, 14.xi.2002, arm[adilha] Malaise, J.C.R. Fontenelle col[etor] (UFES 102157). Paratypes (134). BRAZIL, Bahia, Camacan, 20–24.vii.2008, arm[adilha] Möricke, C. Waichert col[etor] (UFES 80494); Minas Gerais, 2 ♀, Mariléria, P[arque] E[stadual] Rio Doce, Área Tereza, 19°37'S 42°34'W, 19–26.xi.2000, arm[adilha] Malaise, J.C.R. Fontenelle col[etor] (UFES 102776; 102784); 1 ♀, Mata Vinhático, 19–26.xi.2000 (UFES 104403); 1 ♀, Área Tereza, 31.vii–07.viii.2001 (UFES 109091); 1 ♀, 18–25.x.2001 (UFES 102192); 3 ♀, Área Tereza, 1.xi.2001 (UFES 100884; 100885; 100886); 1 ♀, 7–14.vii.2002 (UFES 102863); 3 ♀, 17–24.vii.2002 (UFES 102853; 102856; 102860); 1 ♀, 24–31.vii.2002 (UFES 102846); 2 ♀, 31.vii–7.viii.2002 (UFES 109098; 109101); 6 ♀, 24.x.2002 (UFES 101585; 101586; 101588; 101596; 101597; 101598); 4 ♀, 24–31.x.2002 (UFES 101717; 101719; 101726; 101730); 3 ♀, 7.xi.2002, arm[adilha] Malaise, J.C.R. Fontenelle col[etor] (UFES 102228; 102232; 102233); 1 ♀, 14.xi.2002 (UFES 102156; 102157); 3 ♀, 9–16.x.2003 (UFES 101814; 101815; 101816); 11 ♀, 19–26.x.2003 (UFES 101758; 1017560; 1017561; 1017562; 1017563; 1017564; 1017565; 1017566; 1017568; 1017575; 1017576); 6 ♀, 26.x–2.xi.2003 (UFES 102725; 102726; 102729; 102730; 102737; 102739); 2 ♀, Mata do Gambá, 26.x–2.xi.2003 (UFES 102971; 102972); 2 ♀, Área Tereza, 2–9.xi.2003 (UFES 109128; 109129); 31 ♀, 9–16.xi.2003 (UFES 101625; 101627; 101628; 101629; 101632; 101633; 101634; 101635; 101636; 101637; 101638; 101639; 101640; 101641; 101642; 101643; 101645; 101650; 101651; 101652; 101659; 101660; 101664; 101665; 101666; 101667; 101668; 101669; 101670; 101671; 101672); 6 ♀, 9–15.vii.2004 (UFES 100851; 100852; 100853; 100856; 100860; 100861); 3 ♀, 20–27.x.2004 (UFES 100810; 100814; 103916); 1 ♀, 27.x–2.xi.2004 (UFES 102266); 1 ♀, Mata do Vinhático (UFES 103881); 1 ♀, 10–17.xi.2004 (UFES 104258); 1 ♀, 17–24.xi.2004 (UFES 103810); 1 ♀, Área Tereza, 17–24.vii.2005 (UFES 102869); 2 ♀, Mata Vinhático, 25.vii–1.viii.2005 (UFES 109159; 109160); 4 ♀, Área Tereza, 15–22.x.2005 (UFES 100762; 100765; 100766; 100768); 1 ♀, 2–9.xi.2006 (UFES 100741); 1 ♀, 9–16.xi.2006 (UFES 102363); 1 ♀, Mata Vinhático (UFES 104380); 3 ♀, Área Tereza, 28.x–4.xi.2007 (UFES 102804; 102814; 102815); 1 ♀, Mata Vinhático (UFES 104343); 1 ♀, Área Tereza, 11–28.xi.2007 (UFES 100739); 1 ♀, 2–9.viii.2008 (UFES 100779); 11 ♀, 26.x–2.xi.2009 (UFES 102337; 102338; 102339; 102340; 102341; 102342; 102343; 102344; 102345; 102346; 102353); Espírito Santo, 1 ♀, Pancas, Faz[enda] Juliberto Stur, 19°13'10.5"S 40°46'23.8"W 24–31.i.2003, Armadilha Malaise, M.T. Tavares, C.O. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col[etores] (UFES 09849); 5 ♀, Pinheiros, Res[erva] Biol [ogica] Córrego do Veado, 18°21'S 40°09'W 09–17.vi.2011, arm[adilha] Möricke, M.T. Tavares & equipe col[etores] (UFES 63330; 63339; 63358; 63364; 63366); 2 ♀, Santa Leopoldina, Suíça, mata, 361m, 20°04'54.6"S 40°35'38.9"W 5–12.xi.2007, arm[adilha] Malaise, C.O. Azevedo & eq[uipe] col[etores] (UFES 09066; 09101); Paraná, 1 ♀, Colombo, EMBRAPA, BR 476 Km 25°17'S 49°14'W 20, 06.viii.1987, arm[adilha] Malaise, Lev[antamento] Ent [omológico] Profaupar (DZUP).
Distribution. Brazil: Bahia, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Paraná.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. tlaloc by having the head distinctly wider than long; the mandible strongly angled and with the lower tooth sharpened and longer than the others; the clypeus with the apical margin truncate; the eye large; the frontal angle of the ocellar triangle acute, with the ocelli large; the vertex concave; the notaulus narrow; the metapostnotum with the metapostnotal-propodeal suture almost reaching transverse posterior carina; and the metasoma with each segment’s posterior half densely setose, whereas A. tlaloc has the head wide; the mandible wide, curved, and step-shaped with five distal teeth; the clypeus with the median lobe rounded, short; the eye small; the frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse, with the ocelli very small; the vertex straight; the notaulus very narrow; the metapostnotum with the metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergent; and the metasoma with each segment’s posterior half sparsely setose.
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 17-18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263