Anisepyris lalaithi 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 lalaithi

description: Anisepyris lalaithi Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 28B; 29D; 29G; 29L)
Description, female. Body length 4.69 mm. Head with green reflection; mesosoma with dark green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with four distal teeth, narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe quadrate, short; median clypeal carina hardly distinct from clypeus. Frons coriaceous; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli very small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow; posterior mesoscutellar sulcus present. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture fused with first metapostnotal carina; 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 closed; posterior fovea present; mesopleural suture closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose; claws bifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. 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, angled, and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv strongly curved forward, ventral process large, and posterior process long; 2rv strongly curved forward.
Material examined. Holotype, ♀, BRAZIL, Goiás, Alto Paraíso, P[ar]q[ue] Nac[ional] Chapada do Veadeiros, 14°00'S 47°41'W, 09–11.ix.2005, arm[adilha] Möricke, Aguiar & eq[uipe] col[etor] (MZSP). Paratypes (17). NICARAGUA, Granada, 1 ♀, Volcan Mombacho, Santa Ana 2, 15.v.1998,—Mal[aise] trap, J.M. Maes col[ector] (SEAN); TRINIDAD, Arima, 1 ♀, Simla, n[ea]r Arima, rain for[est], 250m, 25.xi–31.xii.1997, W.R.M. Mason (CNCI); Curepe, 1 ♀, 14.ii.1978, M[alaise] T[rap] (CNCI); 1 ♀, 28.iii.1978; 1 ♀, 13–31.iii.1978; Chiriqui, 1 ♀, 15Km NW Hato del Volcan, 1200m, 24–31.v.1997, Peck & Howden [collectors] (CNCI); BRAZIL, Amazonas, 1 ♀, Manaus, Reserva 1112, 08.x.1986, [armadilha] Malaise, Bert Klein col[etor] (INPA); Goiás, 1 ♀, Alto Paraíso, P[ar]q[ue] Nac[ional] Chapada do Veadeiros, 14°00'S 47°41'W, 09–11.ix.2005, arm[adilha] Möricke, Aguiar & eq[uipe] col[etor] (MZSP); 1 ♀, 17–19.ix.2005, arm[adilha] Malaise; Bahia, 1 ♀, Ibicui, Faz[enda] Maravilha, 14°52'S 40°00'W, 26.xi.2001, arm[adilha] Malaise (CEPLAC); 1 ♀, Firmino Alves, Faz[enda] Santo Antônio, 14°59'S 39°55'W, 24.xi.2002, arm[adilha] Malaise (CEPLAC); 1 ♀, Una, Faz[enda] Cachoeira, seringueira, 15°17'S 39°03'W, 10.iii.2001, arm[adilha] Malaise, J.A. Cardoso & J.R. Maia (CEPLAC); Minas Gerais, 1 ♀, Belo Horizonte, UFMG, Est[ação] Ecol[ógica], 02.xii.1996,—arm[adilha] Malaise, J.C.R. Fontenell col[etor] (UFMG); Espírito Santo, 2 ♀, Pinheiros, Res[erva] Biol[ógica] Córrego do Veado, 18°21'S 40°09'W, 09–17.vi.2011, arm[adilha] Malaise, M.T. Tavares & equipe col[etores] (UFES 63230; 6323); 1 ♀, Santa Teresa, Estação Ecológica de Santa Lúcia, 19°58'18.5"S 40°32'07.6"W, 06–09.xi.2009, [armadilha] Malaise Bosque 2, M. Tavares & C. Azevedo & eq[uipe] col[etores] (UFES 125387); 1 ♀, Santa Maria de Jetibá, Faz[enda] Clarindo Krüger. 20°04'27.9"S 40°44'61.3"W, 29.xi–06.xii.2002, armadilha Malaise, Tavares, Azevedo e eq[quipe] col[etores] (UFES 09745); 1 ♀, Vila Velha, Res[erva] Jacaranema, 30.x.2002, arm[adilha] Malaise, Azevedo & eq[uipe] col[etores] (UFES 29613).
Distribution. Nicaragua; Panama; Trinidad & Tobago; Brazil: Amazonas, Goiás, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. smithanus by having the mandible narrow with its teeth equally wide; the clypeus short with the clypeal carina hardly distinct from the clypeus; the antennal scrobe ecarinate; the frontal angle of the ocellar triangle forming a right angle; the ocelli very small; the vertex convex; the pronotal disc with a posterior pronotal sulcus; the posterior mesoscutellar sulcus present; the metapostnotum with longitudinal ridges; and the genitalia with the 1rv ventral process large, whereas A. smithanus has the mandible wide with its superior tooth curved upward; the clypeus long with the clypeal carina distinct from the clypeus; the antennal scrobe carina reaching the eyes; the frontal angle of the ocellar triangle acute; the ocelli small; the vertex straight; the pronotal disc without a posterior pronotal sulcus; the posterior mesoscutellar sulcus absent; the metapostnotum without longitudinal ridges; and the genitalia with the 1rv ventral process small.
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 229, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263