Anisepyris finwei 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 finwei

description: Anisepyris finwei Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 27I; 29D; 29G; 29M)
Description, male. Body length 3.23 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Flagellomeres short, with sparse and short setae. Mandible very narrow, curved, with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long; median clypeal carina higher than frons level. Frons coriaceous.
Antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina absent; without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; 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 opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose. Claws bifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere wide, rounded, and with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin straight, sparsely setose; basivolsella with excavation at inner margin and with wide projection; cuspis with arms very short, with basal projection at inner margin, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus with basal portion angled and wide, and apical portion as long as basal, truncate, and swollen; apodeme wide.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, Goiás, Alto Paraíso, P[ar]q[ue] Nac[ional] Chapada dos Veadeiros, 14°00'S 47°41'W, 15–25.ix.2005, arm[adilha] Malaise, Aguiar & eq[uipe] col[etores] (MZSP). Paratypes (7). NICARAGUA, Granada, 1 ♂, Volcan Mombacho, Santa Joaquim 1, 31.iii.1998 —Mal[aise] trap, J.M. Maes col[ector] (SEAN); BRAZIL, Mato Grosso, 1 ♂, Rondonópolis, 4.ix.1990, M.T. Tavares col[etor] (UFES 10239); 1 ♂, 17.x.1991, mata (UFES 10255); Distrito Federal, 1 ♂, Res[erva] Ecol[ógica] IBGE, Km0 BR 251, 30.ix–07.x. [19]82, 3A-116-1J (IBGE); 1 ♂, 3A-40-7J (IBGE); Espírito Santo, 1 ♂, Domingos Martins, Pico do Eldourado, 20°22'17"S 40°39'29"W, 03–10.xii.2004, [armadilha] Malaise, Tavares e eq[uipe] col[etores] (UFES 09844); PARAGUAY, Cazaapá, 1 ♂, Hermosa, López family, San Rafaeal Res[erve], 80m, 26°18'29"S 55°45'3"W, 1–3.xii.2000, FIT, Z.H. Falin [collector] (CNCI).
Distribution. Nicaragua; Brazil: Goiás, Mato Grosso, Distrito Federal, Espírito Santo; Paraguay.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. venustus by having the antenna not elongate; the mandible very narrow; the median clypeal carina higher than frons level; the antennal scrobe carinate; the eye large; the ocelli small; the transverse pronotal carina absent; the metasomal segments sparsely setose; the paramere as long as the basiparamere; the basivolsella with an excavation at the inner margin and with a wide projection; the cuspis with the arms short; and the aedeagus with the apical portion truncate and as long as the basal portion, whereas A. venustus has the antenna elongate; the mandible narrow; the median clypeal carina lower than frons level; the antennal scrobe carinate, but weak; the eye small; the ocelli large; the transverse pronotal carina present; the metasomal segments glabrous; the paramere longer than the basiparamere; the basivolsella with a projection at the basal portion of the inner margin; the cuspis with the arms long; and the aedeagus with the apical portion slender and longer than the basal portion.
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 224-225, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263