Cleistepyris paraensis (Kieffer, 1910)

Marques Jr, Wilson J., Azevedo, Celso O. & Colombo, Wesley D., 2025, Revision of the Brazilian Northeastern Cleistepyris (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), with description of six new species, Zootaxa 5692 (1), pp. 1-30 : 15-16

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scientific name	Cleistepyris paraensis (Kieffer, 1910)
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Propristocera paraensis Kieffer, 1910: 290–291 (male, holotype from Brazil, Pará, CASC, examined); Kieffer 1914: 484, 486; Evans 1963: 268, 341–342; Evans 1964: 34.

Cleistepyris truncaticeps Kieffer, 1910: 48 , 50 (male, holotype from Peru, Mapiri , ZMHB, not examined). Junior subjective synonym of Cleistepyris paraensis (Kieffer, 1910) according to Ramos et al. 2010: 311.

Propristocera boliviensis Ogloblin, 1938: 44–48 (male, holotype from Bolivia, Santa Cruz, figs 15–16, MACN, not examined); Evans 1963: 268, 343–344; Evans 1964: 34. Junior subjective synonym of Cleistepyris paraensis (Kieffer, 1910) according to Evans 1963: 343.

Redescription. Male. Measurements (mm). Body length 3.28–5.36, LH 0.83–1.20, WH 0.88–1.30, WF 0.54–0.76, WOT 0.20–0.38. Color . Head and mesosoma black, metasoma dark brown; wings hyaline; antenna and legs light brown. Head. Malar space absent; median clypeal lobe trapezoidal; gena not visible in dorsal view; mandible with one distinct ventralmost tooth and remaining teeth indistinctly fused; hypostoma strongly curved medially; frons punctured and smooth; frontal line narrow and sulcate; eye glabrous; anterior ocellus posterior to supra-ocular line. Mesosoma . Dorsal pronotal area punctured and smooth; notaulus complete, narrow, diverging posterad; parapsidal signum narrow; metapostnotal median carina of metapectal-propodeal disc irregular, incomplete posteriorly. Hind wing thick, jugum not fused with remigium. Metasoma. Hypopygium with posterior margin incurved. Genitalia. Harpe with medial-dorsal corner partially arched, apical margin with small, well delimited excavation, dorsal margin outcurved, divided in dorsal and ventral arms; dorsal arm laminar, apex rounded and anterior to ventral arm apex; ventral arm laminar and sharp, apex setose and posterior to apex of digitus; aedeagus with apical lobe not gibbous to such an extent that dorsal surface is flat, aedeagal apex posterior to apex of ventral arm of cuspis, with two pairs of apical lobes, outer lobe apex posterior to inner lobe apex, rounded apically. Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Type material. Holotype,male: BRAZIL, Pará ( USNM). New material. BRAZIL, Ce [ará], 1 male, Ubajara GoogleMaps , PAR[que] NA[cional] Ubajara GoogleMaps , Cachoeira do Cafundó GoogleMaps , 03°50'13''S/40°54'35''W, Suspended trap, 15-28.ii.2012, J.S.Pinto Júnior and F. Limeira-de-Oliveira cols. ( CZMA); 1 male, 16-31.xii.2012 ( CZMA); 1 male, Malaise trap, 01-15.i.2013 ( CZMA); 1 male, 01-14.ii.2013 ( CZMA); 1 male, 19-28.ii.2013 ( CZMA); MA[ranhão], 1 male, C[ândido] Mendes GoogleMaps , Fazenda Sete Irmãos GoogleMaps , 01°51'37''S 45°46'10''W, Malaise trap, 03-06.x.2008, F Limeira-de-Oliveira, JA Rafael, PAM Moraes GoogleMaps cols. ( CZMA); 1 male, Carolina, PAR [que] NA[cional] Chapada das Mesas, Malaise trap ( CZMA); 1 male, Riacho Corrente GoogleMaps , 14-22.ii.2014 ( CZMA); Caxias GoogleMaps , 1 male, Res GoogleMaps [erva] Ecol GoogleMaps [ógica] Inhamum GoogleMaps , Malaise trap, 20-24.iv.2006, G.A. Cunha col. ( CZMA); 1 male, Zona Rural GoogleMaps , Riacho do Ouro GoogleMaps , 04°43'05''S 43°14'16''W, varredura, 24.vii.2012, JA Rafael, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, JS Pinto Júnior cols ( CZMA); 2 males, REBIO, Centro Novo GoogleMaps , Malaise trap, 7-11.i.2011 ( CZMA, NESB); 1 male, Mirador GoogleMaps , Parq GoogleMaps [ue] Estadual Mirador GoogleMaps , Base da Geraldina GoogleMaps , 06°37'25''S 45°52'08''W, Malaise trap, 14-18.viii.2012, D.W.A. Marques, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira and J.S.P. Júnior cols ( CZMA); 3 males, 13-19.x.2012, L.S.Santos, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, L.L.M.Santos cols. ( CZMA, NESB); 2 males, 08-14.iii.2013 ( CZMA); 3 males, 10-20.x.2013, F Limeira-de-Oliveira, L.L.M. Santos, T.L.Rocha cols ( CZMA); 1 male, 20-31.i.2014, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, L.L.M.Santos and L.S.Santos cols. ( CZMA). 1 male, 411 m, 06°37'06''S 45°51'51''W, 02-12.viii.2013, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, L.L.M.Santos and T.L.Rocha cols. ( CZMA); Pi [auí], Piracuruca, PAR[que] NA[cional] de Sete Cidades, Posto do ICMBio, 04°05'57''S 41°42'34''W, Suspended trap, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, J.S.Pinto Júnior cols., 1 male, 01-14.ii.2013 ( CZMA); 1 male, 15-28.ii.2013 ( CZMA); Malaise trap, 1 male, 15-28.ii.2013 ( CZMA); 1 male, 16-28.ii.2013 ( CZMA); 1 male, 01-15.xii.2013 ( CZMA); F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T.T.A. Silva cols, 1 male, 19-28.ii.2013 ( CZMA); 12 males, 12-27.iii.2013 ( CZMA, NESB); 1 male 17-27.iii.2013 ( CZMA); 3 males, 15-30.vi.2013 ( CZMA, NESB); 2 males, 01-06.vii.2013 ( CZMA); 1 male 15-30.xi.2013 ( CZMA).

Distribution. Brazil ( Acre, Amazonas, Ceará, Maranhão, Pará, Piauí, Roraima).

Remarks. This species was recorded from Acre, Amazonas, Maranhão, Pará and Roraima and for the first time is recorded from Ceará and Maranhão, Brazil.