Anisepyris hathaldiri 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 hathaldiri

description: Anisepyris hathaldiri Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 25M; 26L; 26M; 27C)
Description, male. Body length 3.92 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 narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate, but weak. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc shorter than wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete, and foveate; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus wide. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; 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 divided; 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 wide, rounded, with ventral and dorsal margin convex, densely setose; basivolsella with excavation at inner margin and with basal projection ventrad; cuspis with arms short, with basal projection at inner margin, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus with basal portion angled and wide, and apical portion as long as basal and wide; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, Pará, Oriximiná, Porto de Trombetas, 01°27'S 56°30'W, 15–25.ii.2007, arm[adilha] Malaise, J. Cardoso & G. Costa col[etores] (UFES 106074). Paratypes (4). BRAZIL, Pará, 1 ♂, Anapu, Rio Xingu, Caracol, Barra do vento, 20–23.xi.2007, arm[adilha] Malaise, O.T. Silveira & equipe col[etores] (MPEG); 1 ♂, Canaã dos Carajás, mata, 6.3°85'85" S 49.8° 98'56"W, 26.vii.2004, arm[adilha] Malaise, R.M. Valente & E.M. Santos col[etores] (MPEG); Ceará, 1 ♂, Crato, Bezena, Serra do Araripe, v.1964, M. Alvarenga col[lector] (CNCI); BOLIVIA, Cochabamba, 1 ♂, 117 Km E Cochabamba at. Lagunitas, 1000m, 17°6'22"S 65°40'57"W, 1–6.ii.1999, FIT, mountain evergreen for[est], F. Génier col[lector] (CNCI).
Distribution. Brazil: Pará, Ceará; Bolivia.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. interruptus by having the body with darkish green reflection and the metapectal-propodeal disc black; the clypeus with the median lobe angulate; the ocelli small; the pronotal disc shorter than wide; the transverse pronotal carina foveate; the notaulus wide; the mesopleuron with the lower fovea divided; the cuspis arm short; and the aedeagus with the basal portion wide and the apical portion wide and as long as the basal portion, whereas A. interruptus has the body black; the clypeus with the median lobe rounded; the ocelli large; the pronotal disc as long as wide; the transverse pronotal carina not foveate; the notaulus very narrow; the mesopleuron with the lower fovea not divided; the cuspis arms very short; and the aedeagus with the basal portion slender, and apical portion slender and longer than the basal portion.
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 205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263