Alongatepyris ingens Vargas & Azevedo, 2008

Colombo, Wesley D., Perkovsky, Evgeny E. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2022, Synopsis of the rare genus Alongatepyris (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of the first extinct species from Dominican amber, Palaeoentomology 5 (1), pp. 57-65 : 58

Alongatepyris ingens Vargas & Azevedo, 2008

( Fig. 1C, D )

Type material. Holotype female. COLOMBIA, Guaviare, Tomachipán (playa río Inirida , 2°13′52″N, 71°31′31″W), 29.I.1999, F. Fernández col. ( IAVH 31862 ).

Revised diagnosis. Female. Body length ~ 2.9 mm. Head longer than wide. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mandible tetradentate. Clypeus with median lobe outcurved, lateral lobe reduced. Eye located far from mandibular base, glabrous, elongated in lateral view, bulging in dorsal view. Frontal line distinct. Ocelli conspicuous. Anterior ocellus posterior to supra-ocular line. Dorsal pronotal area longer than mesoscutellum, strongly coriaceous. Posterior pronotal sulcus absent. Notaulus absent. Parapsidal signum present. Mesoscuto-scutellar suture with sulcus incurved medially. Mesopleuron with lower mesopleural fovea. Forewing with 2r-rs&Rs vein absent. Mesotibia not spinose. Metapectal-propodeal disc long, not touching posterior margin of anteromesoscutum; transverse anterior carina sinuous; metapostnotal median carina complete, not extending posteriorly; transverse posterior carina incurved medially. Tarsal claw simple. Metasoma polished.

Male. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Alongatepyris, females. A, B, A. platunissimus. A, Head and mesosoma, dorsal view. B, Part of forewing, dorsal view. C, D, A. ingens. C, Head and mesosoma, dorsal view. D, Part of forewing, dorsal view. Scale bars = 250 µm.