Anisepyris rufosignatus Kieffer 1907
Creators: name: Barbosa, Diego N.
name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Anisepyris
Anisepyris rufosignatus

description: Anisepyris rufosignatus Kieffer, 1907
Anisepyris rufosignatus Kieffer, 1908, 32: 9, 14–15.
Redescription, female. Body length 4 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings subhyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long, with median tooth at apical margin. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus wide; posterior mesoscutellar sulcus present. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergent to first pair of metapostnotal carina; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectalpropodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea divided; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture closed. Mesotibia not spinose.
Redescription, male. Body length 2.7 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Flagellomeres long. Mandible very narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long, with apical median tooth. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocelli very small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus wide; posterior mesoscutellar sulcus present. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergent to first metapostnotal carina; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity rugulose. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea divided; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture closed. Mesotibia not spinose. Genitalia. Basiparamere shorter than paramere; paramere wide, rounded, and with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin straight, densely setose; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms long; digitus with basal projection overlapping aedeagus basal portion; aedeagus with basal portion angled and slender, and apical portion as long as basal, wide and swollen; apodeme wide.
Material examined. Plesiotype. Female. MEXICO, San Luis Potosi, Tamazunchale, [on banana leaf], 6.VI.1965, H.E. Evans col. (MCZH). Plesiallotype, ♂, MEXICO, San Luis Potosi, Tamazunchale, [on banana leaf], 6.VI.1965, H.E. Evans col. (MCZH).
Distribution. Mexico; Belize.
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 104-105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263