Anisepyris aeneus Kieffer 1906
Creators: name: Barbosa, Diego N.
name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Anisepyris
Anisepyris aeneus

description: Anisepyris aeneus Kieffer, 1906
(Figs 4G; 5E; 5L; 5S)
Anisepyris aeneus Kieffer, 1906, 30: 138.
Anisepyris sublevis Kieffer, 1906, 30: 140. Synonym by Evans, 1966, 9: 16. Rhabdepyris (Lophepyris) bridwelli Evans, 1959, 61: 202. Synonym by Evans, 1966, 9: 16.
Redescription, female. Body length 6.23 mm. Head with green reflection; mesosoma with green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings subhyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, curved, and step-shaped. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocelli very small. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctured; transverse pronotal carina present, incomplete; posterior margin without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectalpropodeal 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 polished; propodeal declivity polished. 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 spinose; claws bifid. Metasomal segments densely setose. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv slightly longer than genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, smoothly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf strongly curved forward; 2vf slender, ventral margin angled, and with dorsal lap swollen posteriorly; 1rv strongly curved forward, ventral process small, and posterior process long; 2rv strongly curved forward.
Redescription, male. Body length 3.5–5.5 mm. Head with darkish green reflection; mesosoma with darkish green reflection; wings subhyaline; metasoma dark castaneous with apex castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres long. Mandible slender, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina present, incomplete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Claws bifid. Genitalia. Basiparamere shorter than paramere; paramere slender, rounded, and with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin straight, densely setose; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus basal portion convex and slender, apical portion as long as basal portion and slender; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype (A. aeneus Kieffer, 1906). Female. NICARAGUA, Chinandega, Baker col. #21 (CASC, #9568). NICARAGUA, Masaya, 1 ♀, s/ citrus, + malezas, ii.1995, Projeto NIM (SEAN); BRAZIL, Goiás, 1 ♀, Alto Paraíso, P [ar]q[ue] Nac [ional] Chapada do Veadeiros, 14°00'S 47°41'W, 17–25.ix.2005, arm[adilha] Malaise, Aguiar & eq[uipe] col[etor] (MZSP).
Distribution. U.S.A.: Texas; Mexico; El Salvador; Costa Rica; Panama; Nicaragua; Brazil: Goiás.
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 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263