Anisepyris cupreolus ( Evans, 1965 )

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 : 125-126

Anisepyris cupreolus ( Evans, 1965)

( Figs 17D ; 17K; 17N; 18C)

Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) cupreolus Evans, 1965 , 133: 108–109.

Anisepyris cupreolus ( Evans, 1965) . Combined by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 23.

Redescription, female. Body length 5.15 mm. Wings bi-banded; metasoma castaneous. Head long. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, curved, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, short. Frons coriaceous ; with frontal process; antennal scrobe carinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous ; transverse pronotal carina complete; posterior margin with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very 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 conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; 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. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv slightly longer than genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf strongly curved forward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv slightly curved forward, ventral process small, and posterior process long; 2rv not curved.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, BRAZIL, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutônia , VII.1953, F. Plaumann col. ( MCZH, #30950) . Allotype, ♂, ECUADOR. Bucay , 6.X.1922, F.x. Williams col. ( BPBM). Genitalia slide HE 568 . HONDURAS, Cortez, 1 ♀, Tujoa lake, Deer Isl [and], 19–26.vi.1994, FIT, J. Ashe, R. Brooks ( CNCI) ; TRINIDAD, Arima, 1 ♀, 8 Km N Arima, Simila Res [erve] Sta [tion], lower montane rain for[est], 260m, 24.vi–8.vii.1993, FIT, S. & J. Peck, ( CNCI).

Distribution. Honduras; Trinidad & Tobago; Brazil: Santa Catarina.

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.