Rhabdepyris lobatifrons , Kieffer 1910
Creators: name: Stein, P. R. W.
name: Azevedo, C. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Rhabdepyris
Rhabdepyris lobatifrons

description: Key to males of lobatifrons species-group   
1 Propodeal disc with five discal carinae and a pair of additional carinae beside median one (Fig. 23)..... 2  
- Propodeal disc with five discal carinae, withuot a pair of additional carinae beside median one (Fig. 2).3  
2(1) Aedeagus apex as high as cuspis apex in lateral view (Fig. 8); scutellar groove as deep as scutellar pit (Fig. 2)........................................................................................................................................................ 4  
 - Aedeagus apex lower than cuspis apex in lateral view (Fig. 29); scutellar groove shallower than scutellar pit (Fig. 23) .................................................................................................................. R. demissus sp. nov.   
 3(1) Paramedian carina medially convergent and posteriorly divergent (Fig. 9); aedeagus with median callus in outer margin (Fig. 13); aedeagus apex higher than cuspis apex in lateral view (Fig. 15)....................... ...................................................................................................................................... R. callosus sp. nov.   
- Paramedian carina neither medially convergent nor posteriorly divergent (Fig. 16); aedeagus without medium callus on outer margin (Fig. 6); aedeagus apex not higher than cuspis apex in lateral view (Fig. 8)................................................................................................................................................................ 5  
 4(2) Ventral margin of paramere dilated medially or submedially (Fig. 24, 27 in Azevedo, 1999)................... ............................................................................................................................. R. septemlineatus Kieffer   
 - Ventral margin of paramere not dilated medially or submedially (Fig. 23 in Rosmann & Azevedo, 2005) .............................................................................................................. R. atlanticus Rosmann & Azevedo   
 5(3) Paramere apex angularly concave (Fig.22) ................................................................. R. concavus sp. nov.   
- Paramere apex rounded (Fig. 8)................................................................................................................. 6  
 6(5) Paramere conspicuously wide, dorsal margin covering slightly aedeagus in dorsal view (Fig. 7)............. ................................................................................................................................... R. latissimus sp. nov.   
- Paramere not as above, dorsal margin not covering aedeagus in dorsal view (Fig.13)............................. 7  
 7(6) Median portion of aedeagus progressively narrow (Fig. 36) ............................. R. quinquilineatus Kieffer   
 - Median portion of aedeagus abruptly narrow (Fig. 37) ............................................... R. luteipennis Evans
description: Published as part of Stein, P. R. W. & Azevedo, C. O., 2007, Synopsis of lobatifrons species-group (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae, Rhabdepyris) from Neotropical region, with redefinition of the group, pp. 23-34 in Zootaxa 1444 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1444.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5077215