Anisepyris dietrichorum Evans 1959
Creators: name: Barbosa, Diego N.
name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Anisepyris
Anisepyris dietrichorum

description: Anisepyris dietrichorum Evans, 1959
(Figs 18M; 19C; 19D; 19F)
Anisepyris dietrichorum Evans, 1959, 61: 100, 118.
Redescription, female. Body length 5 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings subhyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, angled, and with lower tooth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous; with frontal process; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli small. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; 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 inconspicuous; 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. Body length 5.15 mm. Head with darkish green reflection; mesosoma with darkish blue reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with sparse and short setae. Mandible narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe quadrate, short, with median tooth at apical margin. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; 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 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 closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere slender, rounded, with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin straight, sparsely setose; 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 angled and slender, and apical portion shorter than basal, slender and swollen; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, [U.S.A.], Ariz[ona], Arivaca, Pima Co., 2.VI.1953, A[lice] & H[enry] Dietrich col. (USNM, #64.397). NICARAGUA, Granada, 1 ♂, Volcan, Mombacho, Bosq[ue] Nebuloso, 30.iv.1998 —Mal[aise] trap, J.M. Maes col[lector] (SEAN).
Distribution. U.S.A.: Arizona; 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 page 139, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263