Anisepyris fuinuri 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 fuinuri

description: Anisepyris fuinuri Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 21E; 23C; 23F; 23I)
Description, male. Body length 4.85 mm. Head with darkish blue reflection; mesosoma with darkish blue reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae. Mandible narrow, curved, with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, punctate; transverse pronotal carina present, incomplete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. 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 present; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia spinose. Claws bifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere shorter than paramere; paramere wide, rounded, and with ventral margin straight and dorsal margin convex, densely setose; basivolsella with excavation at inner margin; cuspis with arms long, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus with basal portion convex and slender, and apical portion as long as basal and slender; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, NICARAGUA, Granada, Volcan Mombacho, Santa Ana 2, 11°49'34"N 85°58'03"W, 15.v.1998 —Mal[aise] trap, J.M. Maes col[ector] (SEAN). Paratypes (29). NICARAGUA, Granada, 1 ♂, Volcan Mombacho, El Progresso 3, 15.v.1998 —Mal[aise] trap, J.M. Maes col[ector] (SEAN); 1 ♂, Santa Ana 1, 2.vi.1998; 10 ♂, Santa Ana 2, 15.v.1998 (SEAN); 1 ♂, 21.vi.1998; 1 ♂, 30.vi.1998; 4 ♂, Santa Ana 3, 30.vi.1998; 1 ♂, San Joaquim 1, 31.iii.1998; 1 ♂, 30.iv.1998; 1 ♂, 15.v.1998; Masaya, 6 ♂, s/ citrus, + malezas, ii.1995, Projeto NIM (SEAN); TRINIDAD, Curepe, 1 ♂, Canaã dos Carajás, 27.xi.2005 arm[adilha] Malaise, R.M. Valente & E.M. Santos col[etores] (MPEG); BRAZIL, Pará, 1 ♂, Canaã dos Carajás, 6.4°85'86" S 48.8° 98'73"W, 27.xi.2005 arm[adilha] Malaise, R.M. Valente & E.M. Santos col[etores] (MPEG).
Distribution. Nicaragua; Trinidad & Tobago; Brazil: Pará.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. venustus by having the body surface strongly punctured; the antennal flagellomeres short; the transverse pronotal carina incomplete; the notaulus wide; the mesopleuron with the lower fovea distinctly wide; the basiparamere overlapping the aedeagus at the basal portion; the paramere wide and densely setose at the anterior margin; the basivolsella with the inner apical margin inclined; and the aedeagus with the apical portion very slender, whereas A. venustus has the body surface coriaceous; the antennal flagellomeres long; the transverse pronotal carina complete; the notaulus very narrow; the mesopleuron with the lower fovea elongate; the basiparamere not overlapping the aedeagus at the basal portion; the paramere slender and sparsely setose; the basivolsella with a projection at the basal portion of the inner margin; and the aedeagus with the apical portion slender and swollen.
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 162, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263