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

description: Anisepyris mexicanus (Evans, 1965)
Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) mexicanus Evans, 1965, 133: 81, 82, 83, 96–97.
Anisepyris mexicanus (Evans, 1965). Combined by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 23.
Redescription, female. Body length 4.2 mm. Head black; mesosoma with dark green reflection and metapectalpropodeal disc black; wings subhyaline; metasoma dark castaneous, lightening posterad. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, curved, with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocelli very small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; 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. Mesotibia spinose.
Redescription, male. Black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short. Mandible very narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina absent; without 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; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea opened; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Genitalia. Basiparamere longer than paramere; paramere wide, rounded, and with ventral margin straight and with dorsal margin convex, glabrous; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus with basal portion angled and slender, and apical portion shorter than basal and slender; apodeme wide.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, MEXICO, Nachic, Chiapas [near San Cristobal las Casas], 8000 feet, 27 April 1959 (H.E. Evans [collector]) (MCZH 30942). Allotype, ♂, MEXICO, Nachic, Chiapas [near San Cristobal las Casas], 8000 feet, 27 April 1959 (H.E. Evans [collector]) (MCZH).
Distribution. Mexico.
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 176-177, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263