Anisepyris pulchripennis ( 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 : 178

Anisepyris pulchripennis ( Evans, 1965)

( Figs 22J ; 23B; 23H; 23K)

Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) pulchripennis Evans, 1965 , 133: 106–107.

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

Redescription, female. Body length 4 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings bi-banded; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, curved, and with two upper teeth wider than others. Median clypeal lobe angulate, very short; median clypeal carina hardly distinct from clypeus. Frons coriaceous ; with frontal process; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous ; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc long; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotalpropodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina present and conspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf; 1vv longer than genitalia body; 2vv shorter than 1vv length, abruptly narrowing apicad; 3vv short; 1vf curved downward; 2vf slender and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv slightly curved forward, ventral process large, and posterior process short; 2rv not curved.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, COSTA RICA, Turrialba, 9°54'N 83°41'W, 24 June 1949, (K.W. Coper) ( USNM).

Distribution. Costa Rica.

Remarks. As aforementioned, this species is the only one of pulchripennis species-group transferred megacephalus species-group. All other species of the former group compose cupreolus species-group.

Figures

FIGURE 22. Anisepyris: megacephalus species-group. Head in dorsal profile. A. A. irmoi sp. nov.; B. A. apache (Evans, 1965); C. A. carolinianus (Evans, 1965) (♀); D. A. carolinianus (Evans, 1965) (♂); E. A. colimae Evans, 1966; F. A. delicatus Evans, 1966 (♀); G. A. delicatus Evans, 1966 (♂); H. A. inca Evans, 1966; I. A. megacephalus (Ashmead, 1893); J. A. pulchripennis (Evans, 1965); K. A. robustus Santos & Azevedo, 2000; L. A. texanus (Evans, 1965) (♀).