Anisepyris glirhuini 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 glirhuini

description: Anisepyris glirhuini Barbosa & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 21F; 23C; 23F; 23I)
Description, male. Body length 4.54 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 dense and short setae. Mandible very narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short; median clypeal carina higher than frons level. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli large. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, polished; transverse pronotal carina present, incomplete; 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 polished; propodeal declivity polished. 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 sparsely setose. Genitalia. Basiparamere shorter than paramere; paramere slender, rounded, and sinuous, sparsely setose; basivolsella with excavation at inner margin; cuspis with arms long, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus with basal portion convex and slender, and apical portion shorter than basal and slender.; apodeme slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, UFMG, prefeitura, 19°52'26”S 43°58'21"W, 26.xi.1996 — arm[adilha] Malaise, J.C.R. Fontenelle col[etor] (UFMG). Paratype (1). BRAZIL, Bahia, 1 ♂, Jitaúna, Faz [enda] Boa Paz, 20.xi.2002, arm[adilha] Malaise (CEPLAC).
Distribution. Brazil: Bahia, Minas Gerais.
Remarks. This new species differs from A. strictus by having the body with darkish blue reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; the mandible with the teeth equally wide; the clypeus with the median lobe rounded and with the median clypeal carina higher than frons level; the antennal scrobe ecarinate; the frontal angle of the ocellar triangle forming a right angle; the notaulus narrow; the genitalia with basiparamere visible only dorsally; the paramere dorsally placed and very long; and the cuspis with the arms long, whereas A. strictus has the body with darkish green reflection and the metapectal-propodeum black; the mandible with the lower tooth longer than the others; the clypeus with the median lobe angulate and with the median clypeal carina lower than frons level; the antennal scrobe carinate, but weak; the frontal angle of the ocellar triangle acute; the notaulus very narrow; the paramere laterally placed and long; and the cuspis with the arms short.
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 162-163, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4416.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1242263