Anisepyris iluvatari 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 iluvatari

description: Anisepyris iluvatari Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 9M; 10F; 10G; 10H)
Description, male. Body length 4.15 mm. Head with green reflection; mesosoma with darkish green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with sparse and short setae. Mandible very narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long; median clypeal carina higher than frons level. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous and with transverse pronotal carina followed by foveae; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. 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 polished; propodeal declivity polished. 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 not spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere shorter than paramere; paramere bifid, with ventral arm wide and rounded and dorsal arm very short and rounded, sparsely setose; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms long, with basal projection at inner margin, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus with basal portion convex and slender, and apical portion as long as basal and swollen; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, Rondônia, Candeias do Jamarí, Batalhão de Polícia Ambiental, BR 364 Km 2, 102m, 08°47'S 63°42'W, 28.i–4.ii.2006, arm[adilha] Malaise, D.F. Mugrabi col[etor] (UFES 126929). Paratype (1). BRAZIL, Rondônia, 1 ♂, Candeias do Jamarí, Batalhão de Polícia Ambiental, BR 364 Km 2, 102m, 08°47'S 63°42'W, 28.i–4.ii.2006, arm[adilha] Malaise, D.F. Mugrabi col[etor] (UFES 126899).
Distribution. Brazil: Rondônia.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. bifidus Evans, 1966 by having the posterior hypopygeal margin with a distinctly slender region; and the genitalia with the paramere having its ventral arm very wide and its apex truncate and not incurved, and the dorsal arm short, whereas A. bifidus has the posterior hypopygeal margin without a distinctly slender region; and the genitalia with the paramere having its ventral arm longer and wider than the ventral arm, with its apical margin incurved, and its dorsal arm long.
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 63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263