Anisepyris gothmogi 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 gothmogi

description: Anisepyris gothmogi Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 21J; 23B; 23H; 23I)
Description, male. Body length 3.92 mm. Head with darkish green reflection; mesosoma with darkish blue reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae. Mandible narrow, slightly angled, and with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short. 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; 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 inconspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea opened; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere wide, rounded, with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin straight, and basal portion angled, sparsely setose; basivolsella with apical excavation at inner margin; cuspis with arms 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 slender; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, NICARAGUA, Granada, Volcan Mombacho, Santa Ana 3, 11°49'34"N 85°58'03"W, 15.v.1998 —Mal[aise] trap, J.M. Maes col[ector] (SEAN). Paratypes (3). NICARAGUA, Granada, 1 ♂, Volcan Mombacho, Santa Ana 1, 2.vi.1998 —Mal[aise] trap, J.M. Maes col[ector] (SEAN); 1 ♂, Santa Ana 2, 15.v.1998; 1 ♂, San Joaquim 1, 31.iii.1998.
Distribution. Nicaragua.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. inconspicuus by having the antennal flagellomeres short; the mandible with the lower tooth longer than the others; the clypeus rounded and short, and with the clypeal carina higher than frons level; the antennal scrobe ecarinate; the ocelli large; the mesopleural fovea opened; the paramere with the apex rounded; the basiparamere excavated; the basivolsella with an apical excavation at inner margin; and the aedeagus with the apical portion slender, whereas A. inconspicuus has the antennal flagellomeres long; the mandible with with the teeth equally wide; the clypeus angulate and long, with the clypeal carina lower than frons level; the antennal scrobe carinate, but weak; the ocelli small; the mesopleural fovea closed; the basiparamere uniform; the paramere with the apex truncate; the basivolsella straight; and the aedeagus with the apical portion wide.
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 165-166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263