Apenesia chontalica Westwood 1881
Revision of the world Apenesia Westwood (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae)
Alencar, Isabel D. C. C.
Azevedo, Celso O.
Zootaxa
2020
2020-01-20
4724
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Westwood, 1881
Westwood
1881
[151,606,1536,1563]
Insecta
Bethylidae
Apenesia
GBIF
Animalia
Hymenoptera
15
16
Arthropoda
species
chontalica
( Fig. 25.I)
Apenesia chontalica Westwood 1881, 131, pl 7, fig. 3. ♀; Cameron 1888, 1: 448; Dalla Torre 1898, 5: 558 (catalog); Kief- fer,1908, 76, 25 (catalog); Kieffer 1914, 41: 392, 395; Evans 1963, 130: 269, 358–359, figs 132, 134; Evans 1964, 132: 32, Figs 13, 15; Gordh & Móczár 1990, 46: 201 (catalog).
Diagnosis.Female. Length 7.0 mm. Color.Body castaneous. Mandible with two apical teeth. Clypeus extending back frons, broad short trapezoidal median lobe, margin with few bristles. Eye dark, elliptical, with about 12 facets. Malar space slightly shorter than eye length. Frons nearly polished, punctures small and very sparse. Head subquadrate, 0.95 × as long as wide, sides convex, vertex straight, occipital carina visible in dorsal view. Dorsal pronotal area with lateral margin parallel, sides diverging downward. Maximum width of metapectal-propodeal complex 1.6 × its minimum width, slope between metapectal-propodeal complex and declivity rounded. Mesotibia strongly spinose. Metasoma much longer than head and mesosoma together, petiole very short.
Material examined.Non type ♀: MEX[ICO], in decayed, log. {?= 10g}, XII’.20’, Laredo, 24745, lot #41-459 [det. by Evans, 1962] ( USNM).
Comments. Typematerial was not available for this study. The typematerial is supposed be deposited at OXUM, but we were not able to find it there.
Distribution.Neotropical ( Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica).
2556157107
OXUM
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17
2
holotype