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

description: Anisepyris carolinianus (Evans, 1965)
(Figs 22C, 22D; 23D; 23H; 23J)
Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) carolinianus Evans, 1965, 133: 100–101.
Anisepyris carolinianus (Evans, 1965). Combined by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 23.
Redescription, female. Body length 5.38 mm. Head with green reflection; mesosoma with green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, slightly angled, and step-shaped. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short; median clypeal carina hardly distinct from clypeus. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli very small. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin without 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 absent; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea closed; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid.
Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv as long as genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, smoothly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf strongly curved forward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv slightly curved forward, ventral process small, and posterior process short; 2rv slightly curved forward.
Redescription, male. Body length 4.46 mm. Head with darkish green reflection; mesosoma with darkish green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae. Mandible narrow, curved, and with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina absent; with 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 absent; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; 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 glabrous. Genitalia. Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere wide, rounded, and with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin straight, glabrous; basivolsella with apical excavation at inner margin; cuspis with arms very short, with basal projection at inner margin., dorsal arm wide; aedeagus with basal portion convex and slender, and apical portion as long as basal and very slender; apodeme slender.
Material examined. U.S.A., Florida, 1 ♂, Orlando, Orange Co [unty], 28°36'07"N 81°12'00"W, viii-2.1997, LLP-Sand Pine Turkey Oak, Malaise Trap, M. Fullerton collector (UFES 19593); 1 ♀, Sand Pine-Rosemary Scrub, PitfallS, M. Fullerton collector (UFES 19596).
Distribution. U.S.A.: Florida.
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 171-172, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263