Anisepyris ecuadorianus Evans, 1966

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 : 126

Anisepyris ecuadorianus Evans, 1966

( Figs 17E ; 17K; 18B; 18D)

Anisepyris ecuadorianus Evans, 1966 , 9: 60–62.

Redescription, female. Body length 5.08 mm. Head with dark blue reflection; mesosoma with dark green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings subhyaline; metasoma castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, angled, and with lower tooth longer than others. Very short. Frons coriaceous ; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous ; transverse pronotal carina complete; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and inconspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectalpropodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments densely setose. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv longer than genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf slightly curved forward; 2vf slender, angled, and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv not curved, ventral process small, and posterior process short; 2rv not curved.

Redescription, male. Body length 3.5 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short. Mandible narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long. Frons coriaceous . Antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous ; transverse pronotal carina complete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectalpropodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia not spinose. Genitalia. Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere wide, club-shaped with apex angulate, glabrous; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus with basal portion slightly angled and slender, and apical portion as long as basal and slender; apodeme slender.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, ECUADOR, Bucay , 6.X.1922, F.x. Williams col. ( BPBM) . Allotype, ♂, ECUADOR, Bucay , 6.X.1922, F.x. Williams col. ( BPBM) . ARGENTINA, Tucumán, 1 ♀, El Solidad, 11 Km W Las Cejas, 13–27 May 1967, L. Stange coll[ector] ( UFES 09448 ) .

Distribution. Ecuador; Argentina: Tucumán.

Figures

FIGURE 17. Anisepyris: cupreolus species-group. A–I. Head in dorsal profile. A. A. glaurungi sp. nov.; B. A. gundori sp. nov.; C. A. analis (Cresson, 1872); D. A. cupreolus (Evans, 1965); E. A. ecuadiroanus Evans, 1966; F. A.inconspicuus Santos, 2002; G. A. iridescens (Evans, 1965); H. A. punctatus Santos & Azevedo, 2000; I. A. superpilosus (Azevedo, 1993); J–L. Female mandible in frontal profile; M. Male mandible in frontal profile; N. Mesosoma in dorsal profile.