Tuberepyris hamus Azevedo et Mugrabi, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Azevedo, Celso O.
name: Mugrabi, Daniele F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Tuberepyris
Tuberepyris hamus

description: Tuberepyris hamus Azevedo et Mugrabi, sp. nov.
(Figs 7–9, 23–25)
Description. Female. Body length 2.5 mm. LFW 1.5 mm. Body entirely flattened, head 0.36x as high as long in lateral view. Color. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous almost black; legs (except tarsi), metasoma dark castaneous; antenna, mandible, wing venation castaneous; palpi, tarsi light castaneous; wings subhyaline.
Head (Figs 7–9). Mandible wide apically, with four visible sharpened apical teeth; lowermost one distinctly larger. Clypeus short; slightly projected, median lobe trapezoidal with rounded corner, medially elevated, but not carinate. Suture fronto-clypeal present. Eye slightly bulging laterad, with minute and sparse setae. First four antennomeres in ratio of about 37:16:8:10; flagellomere I about as long as wide; flagellomere IX distinctly longer than wide. Frons coriaceous with just few small and shallow punctures. LH 1.07x WH; WF 0.91x HE; VOL 0.6x HE; OOL 1.29x WOT. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocellar triangle almost touching vertex. Vertex badly convex; corner rounded. Side of head behind eye slightly diverging anterad. Occipital carina absent. First two maxillar palpomeres distinctly shorter and wider than others, III-IV distal ones progressively wider apicad. Labial palpomeres shorter than maxillar ones.
Mesosoma (Fig. 7–9). Pronotal disc with top surface 1.87x as long as mesoscutum; ecarinate. Pronotal collar without groove. Mesoscutum with parapsidal furrow narrow, straight, absent on anterior third of mesoscutum. Mesoscutum-mesoscutellar sulcus narrow, angled laterally. Forewing fully developed; 3.05x as long as wide; subcostal vein 0.28x as long as LFW; median vein present in apical region, 0.3x as long as subcostal vein; pterostigma small and subtriangular (Fig. 23). Hind wing with three distal hamuli (Fig. 25). Propodeal disc areolate-coriaceous, 1.12x as long as median width, progressively narrowing posteriorly; transverse posterior and lateral carinae present; median carina complete and well-defined; lateral of propodeum areolate-coriaceous with circular spiracles; declivity of propodeum areolate-coriaceous without median or lateral carinae. Anterior margin of propleuron almost reaching anterior margin of pronotal disc level in dorsal view. Mesopleuron (Fig. 23) with subtegular groove poorly outlined; lower and anterior foveae absent, mesopleural pit slightly deep. Profemur 2.25x longer than wide.
Metasoma. Not petiolate; polished; 1.28x longer than mesosoma. Tergite II short, only 0.76x as long as tergite I, posterior margin slightly excavated medially.
Male unknown.
Material examined. Holotype. ♀, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, Prefecture Sangha-Mbaéré, Parc National de Dzanga-Ndoki, Mabéa Bai, 21.4 km 53º NE Bayanga, 3º02.01’N 16º 24.57’E, 510m, 2-3.v.2001, S van Noort, Malaise trap, CAR 01-M16, Lowland Rainforest, marsh clearing (ISAM).
Distribution. Central African Republic.
Etymology. The specific epithet hamus is a noun in apposition and refers to the shaped of wing venation.
description: Published as part of Azevedo, Celso O. & Mugrabi, Daniele F., 2014, Three new species of Tuberepyris Lanes et Azevedo (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with amended diagnosis of the genus, pp. 556-564 in Zootaxa 3794 (4) on pages 562-563, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3794.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/225285