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

description: Anisepyris texanus (Evans, 1965)
(Figs 22L; 23D; 23H; 23I)
Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) texanus Evans, 1965, 133: 93–95.
Anisepyris texanus (Evans, 1965). Combined by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 23.
Redescription, female. Body length 4 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, angled, with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very 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 conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal 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 not distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv as long as genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, smoothly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf strongly curved forward; 2vf slender, angled, and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv strongly curved forward, ventral process large, and posterior process short; 2rv strongly curved forward.
Redescription, male. Body length 3.6 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings sub-hyaline. Head wide. Flagellomeres short. Mandible slender, curved, and with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, very short. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli small. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc shorter than wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina absent; without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectalpropodeal 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 opened; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia spinose. Genitalia. Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere wide, rounded, and with basal portion angled, glabrous; basivolsela with inner margin angled; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus basal portion convex and wide, apical portion longer basal portion and slender; apodeme wide.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, [U.S.A.], Tex [as], Big Bend Nat [ional] P[ar]k, The Basin, Chisos Mts., 5400', 8–14.VII.1948, visiting oak honeydew, H. E. Evans col. (MCZH, #30941). Allotype, ♂, MEXICO, Sin [aloa]. 8 mi. SE Elota, 19.V.1962, F. D. Parker col. (MCZH). BRAZIL, Espírito Santo, 2 ♀, Santa Maria de Jetibá—Faz [enda] Paulo Seick, 20°02'31.1''S 40°41'51.3"W, 29.xi–06.xii.2002, Armadilha Malaise, M.T. Tavares, C.O. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col[etores] (UFES 29602; 29907).
Distribution. U.S.A.: Texas; Mexico; Brazil: Espírito Santo.
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 179-180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263