Anisepyris Kieffer, 1905

Anisepyris Kieffer, 1905, 9: 248. Type species: Epyris amazonicus Westwood. Subsequent designation by Kieffer & Marshal, 1905, 248.

Rhabdepyris (Lophepyris) Evans, 1959, 61: 201–204. Type species: Rhabdepyris (Lophepyris) bridwelli Evans. Original designation. Synonymy by Evans, 1964, 132: 96.

Trichotepyris Kieffer, 1906, 9: 376. Type-species: Rhabdepyris pallidipennis Kieffer. Subsequent designation by Muesebeck & Walkley, 1951, 2: 729 (proposed as subgenus of Rhabdepyris). Synonymy by Kieffer, 1914, 41: 346. Subgenus designation by Evans, 1965, 133: 69. Synonymy by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 22.

Diagnosis. Body dark castaneous nearly black, mostly with metallic colour reflections. Head with dense compound eye pilosity; mandible with four or five distal teeth in females, and five distal teeth in males; clypeal carina complete and arched in lateral profile; antennal scrobe usuallycarinate. Pronotum with transverse carina, absent in few species. Notaulus complete; anterior half of parapsidal signum continuous. Metapectal-propodeal disc with metapostnotal carina incomplete, and not fused with posterior carina; propodeal declivity sculptured. Mesopleuron with all foveae well defined. Female genitalia with 2vf (second valvifer) very swollen apically. Male genitalia with basiparamere mostly dorsal; cuspis bifid.

Remarks. Some characters were observed for the first time in Anisepyris, such as the claw-shaped mandible (Fig. 5F); the serrate antenna (Fig. 14O); the antenna with second and third flagellomeres with distal spine projection (Fig. 15A); the very long and slender clypeus (Fig. 6I); the clypeal carina fused and indistinct from the clypeus (Fig. 6G) or the carina very swollen (Fig. 3E); the transverse pronotal carina with a series of foveae (Fig. 15E); the pronotal disc with a median longitudinal line (Fig. 15F); the posterior pronotal sulcus with a series of foveae (Fig. 15E); the posterior mesoscutellar sulcus present (Fig. 15D); the first pair metapostnotal carina and metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergent or fused (Fig. 15J); and all characteristics related to female genitalia (Fig. 30).