Anisepyris finduilasi 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 finduilasi

description: Anisepyris finduilasi Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 21D; 23C; 23G; 23I)
Description, male. Body length 4.38 mm. Head with darkish blue reflection; mesosoma with darkish blue reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with sparse and short setae. Mandible narrow, curved, and with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe quadrate, short. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli large. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture fused with first metapostnotal carina; 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 distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere shorter than paramere; paramere slender and club-shaped, densely setose; basivolsella with excavation at inner margin and with wide projection; cuspis with arms long, with basal projection at inner margin, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus with basal portion angled and slender, and apical portion as long as basal and slender; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, São Paulo, Santa Lúcia, Eucalipto, 21°41'06”S 48°05'02"W, 06–07.x.2001, arm[adilha] Möricke, S.R. Viel col[etor] (UFES 80492). Paratypes (12). DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Perdenales, 1 ♂, 26Km N Cabo Rojo, evergreen dry for[est], 730m, 3.xii.1991, L. Masner [collector] (CNCI); Province Borbon, 1 ♂, San Cristóbal, Cuevas Pomier, trop[ical] decid[uous] for[est], 200m, 13–28.vii.1995, FIT, S. & J. Peck (CNCI); NICARAGUA, Granada, 1 ♂, Volcan Mombacho, Santa Ana 2, 15.v.1998 —Mal[aise] trap, J.M. Maes col[ector] (SEAN); COSTA RICA, Caña, 1 ♂, 4Km Caña, 10.viii.1987, FIT, H&A. Howden (CNCI); TRINIDAD, Arima, 1 ♂, 8Km N Arima, Simila Res[erve] Sta[tion], trop[ical] for[est], 260m, 6–14.vi.1993, FIT, S. & J. Peck, (CNCI); 1 ♂, 13km S Arima, 2km N Talparo, Quesnell Farm, rain for[est], 50m, 22.vi–8.vii.1993, S. & J. Peck (CNCI); BRAZIL, Pará, 1 ♂, Jurutí, Mauari, 01.xii.2008, arm[adilha] Malaise, O.T. Silveira & equipe col[etores] (MPEG); Goiás, 1 ♂, Alto Paraíso, P[ar]q[ue] Nac[ional] Chapada dos Veadeiros, 14°00'S 47°41'W, 7–15.ix.2005, arm[adilha] Malaise, Aguiar & eq[uipe] col[etores] (MZSP); 1 ♂, 7–23.ix.2005; 1 ♂, 16–18.ix.2005, arm[adilha] Möricke; Minas Gerais, 1 ♂, Marliéria, P[arque] E[stadual] Rio Doce, Mata Vinhático, 19°37'S 42°34'W, 12–19.vii.2008, arm[adilha] Malaise, JCR Fontenelle col[etor] (UFES 104248); PARAGUAY, San Pedro, 1 ♂, Cororo—Rio Ypane, 5–9.xii.1983, Malaise trap, M. Wasbauer coll[ector] (UCDC).
Distribution. Dominican Republic; Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Trinidad & Tobago; Brazil: Pará, Goiás, Minas Gerais, São Paulo; Paraguay.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. venustus by having the body surface strongly coriaceous with darkish blue reflection and the metapectal-propodeal disc black; the antennal flagellomeres short; the clypeus quadrate and short; the antennal scrobe ecarinate; the notaulus narrow; the paramere as long as the basiparamere, the basivolsella with an excavation at the inner margin and with a wide projection; the cuspis with short arms; and the aedeagus with the basal portion wide, whereas A. venustus has the body surface strongly coriaceous with darkish green reflection and the metapectal-propodeal disc black; the antennal flagellomeres long; the clypeus angulate and long; the antennal scrobe carinate; the notaulus very narrow; the paramere longer than the basiparamere; the basivolsela with a projection at the basal portion of the inner margin; the cuspis with long arms; and the aedeagus with the basal portion slender.
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 161, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263