Apenesia amoena Evans, 1963

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Apenesia amoena Evans, 1963

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Apenesia amoena Evans 1963: 130 : 269, 353–354, fig. 133. ♀; Evans 1964, 132: 32; Gordh & Móczár 1990, 46: 199 (cata- log).

Diagnosis. Female. Length 4.61 mm. Color. Body castaneous, metasoma darker. Mandible with two apical teeth. Clypeus very short, emarginated and high medially so that it is triangular in frontal view, margin with bristles. Eye dark, elliptical, with about eight facets. Malar space shorter than eye length. Frons with very fine striations, punctures small and sparse, with two short sutures above clypeus, which join posteriorly. Head quadrate with sides parallel and vertex nearly straight (barely concave), 1.16 × as long as wide. Dorsal pronotal area with sides diverging posteriorly. Maximum width of metapectal-propodeal complex 1.6 × its minimum width. Mesotibia strongly spinose. Metasoma as long as head and mesosoma together, with very short petiole.

Material examined. Holotype ♀: COSTA RICA, S[an]ta Clara , Hamburg Farm, 28.V. [19]25, F. Nevermann col. ( USNM, #66015).

Distribution. Neotropical ( Costa Rica).

Figures

FIGURE 25. Dorsal mesosoma. A. Apenesia azeda; B. Apenesia celiela; C. Apenesia conradti; D. Apenesia parasitica, E. Apenesia sahyadrica. Body. F. Apenesia amazonica; G. Apenesia amoena; H. Apenesia bicolor; I. Apenesia chontaica; J. Apenesia delicata. (Scale bar F–J 250µm)