Anisepyris amabilis (Fouts, 1927)

Barbosa, Diego N. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2018, Revision of Anisepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of 135 new species, Zootaxa 4416 (1), pp. 1-258 : 124

Anisepyris amabilis (Fouts, 1927)

Rhabdepyris amabilis Fouts, 1927 , 29: 165–166.

Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) amabilis, Fouts, 1927 . Muesebeck & Walkley, 1951, 2: 729. Anisepyris amabilis (Fouts, 1927) . Combined by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 23.

Diagnosis, female (extracted from Fouts, 1927). Body length 3.5 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, with upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short. Frons coriaceous ; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc longer than wide, sparsely punctate; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus wide. Metapectalpropodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia not spinose.

Diagnosis, male (extracted from Fouts, 1927). Body length 3.4 mm. Head dark castaneous; mesosoma dark castaneous; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous with apex castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres long. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short, with median tooth. Frons coriaceous . Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, sparsely punctate; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; 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.

Distribution. U.S. A: Maryland, Virginia.