Anisepyris eoli 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 eoli

description: Anisepyris eoli Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 18H; 19C; 19D; 19E)
Description, male. Body length 6.54 mm. Head with green reflection; mesosoma with green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae. Mandible narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe quadrate, short. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate and reaching eye. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina complete; without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture fused with first metapostnotal carina; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity polished. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea present; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere longer than paramere; paramere slender, rounded, with ventral and dorsal margin straight, and basal portion angled, sparsely setose; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms very short, with arms almost indistinct each other, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus with basal portion convex and slender, and apical portion shorter than basal, slender and truncate; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, Pará, Vitória do Xingu, Rio Xingu, Bacajá, Bom Jardim, 02°52'48”S 52°00'36"W, 20–24.xi.2007, arm[adilha] Malaise, O.T. Silveira & equipe col[etores] (MPEG). Paratypes (8). FRENCH GUYANA, Saül, 1 ♂, 7Km N 63Km SE of Eaux Claires, M[oun]t Fuméc, 490m, 1–8.vi.1997, FIT, J. Ashe, R, Brooks [collectors] (CNCI); BRAZIL, Amazonas, 1 ♂, Parq[ue] Nac[ional] do Jaú, Rio Unini, Bacaba, 14–19.vi.1996, Arm[adilha] suspensa, Henriques & J.F. Vidal col[etores] (INPA); 1 ♂, Manaus, Reserva 1501, Km 41, 05–30.vi.1995, arm[adilha] suspensa (INPA); Pará, 3 ♂, Vitória do Xingu, Rio Xingu, Bacajá, Bom Jardim, 20–24.xi.2007, arm[adilha] Malaise, O.T. Silveira & equipe col[etores] (MPEG); 1 ♂, Tucuruí, Morro do Senador, 03°59'23"S 49°44'45"W, 01.xii.2001, arm[adilha] Malaise, J.A. Rafael & J.F. Vidal col[etores] (INPA); 1 ♂, Novo Repartimento, Vacinal 45, 04°21'51"S 50°01'49"W, 27.xi.2001, arm[adilha] Malaise, J.A. Rafael & J.F. Vidal col[etores] (INPA).
Distribution. French Guyana; Brazil: Amazonas, Pará.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. venustus by having the antennal flagellomeres short with dense setae; the mandible with the teeth equally wide; the clypeus quadrate; the antennal scrobe carinate and reaching the eye; the eye large; the notaulus narrow; the metapostnotum with the metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergent to the first metapostnotal carina; and the mesopleuron with a posterior fovea present, whereas A. venustus has the antennal flagellomeres long with sparse setae; the mandible with the two upper teeth wider than the others; the clypeus angulate; the antennal scrobe carina not reaching the eye; the eye small; the notaulus very narrow; the metapostnotum with the metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; and the mesopleuron with the posterior fovea absent.
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 134, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263