Anisepyris nigripes 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 : 100

Anisepyris nigripes Evans, 1966

( Figs 13K ; 13L; 14J; 14N; 15A; 15C; 15D; 15K)

Anisepyris nigripes Evans, 1966 , 9: 96, 98.

Redescription, female. Body length 5.23 mm. Head with dark green reflection; mesosoma with dark green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, narrow, slightly angled, and with lower tooth longer than others. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short, with apical median tooth. Frons coriaceous ; antennal scrobe carinate, but weak. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli small. Vertex convex. 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; posterior mesoscutellar sulcus present. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergent to first pair of metapostnotal carina; paraspiracular carina present and inconspicuous; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea divided; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. T9 with anterior arm long and overlapping 2vf.; 1vv as long as genitalia body; 2vv as long as 1vv length, smoothly 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 short; 2rv strongly curved forward.

Redescription, male. Body length 4.54 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae, with tooth projection at second and third flagellomere. Mandible narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe quadrate, short, with apical median tooth. Frons coriaceous . Antennal scrobe carinate and reaching eye. Eye large, circumocular suture present. 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 wide. Mesoscutellar sulcus wide; posterior mesoscutellar sulcus present. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture fused with first metapostnotal carina; 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 divided; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein not distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. Basiparamere longer than paramere; paramere slender, rounded, and with ventral and dorsal margin straight, sparsely setose; basivolsella straight and with inner projection; cuspis with arms very short, dorsal arm wide; aedeagus with basal portion angled and wide, and apical portion as long as basal and wide; apodeme slender.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, BRAZIL, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia, 21.II.1961, F. Plaumann col. ( MCZH, #31224) . Allotype, ♂, BRAZIL, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia, 1.II. [19]62, F. Plaumann col. ( MCZH) . BRAZIL, Maranhão, 1 ♀, 16.x.1984, [armadilha] Möricke ( UFES 09595 ) ; Espírito Santo, 1 ♂, Linhares, Res[erva] Biol [ógica] Sooretama, 24– 19°00'11.5"S 40°07'08"W, 27.ii.2002, [armadilha] Malaise, COAzevedo & eq[uipe] col[etores] ( UFES 29523 ) .

Distribution. Guyana; Ecuador; Brazil: Maranhão, Espírito Santo, Santa Catarina.

Figures

FIGURE 13. Anisepyris: columbianus species-group. Head in dorsal profile. A. A. arizonicus Evans, 1959; B. A. carinatus Santos & Azevedo, 2000; C. A. columbianus (Ashmead, 1893) (♀); D. A. columbianus (Ashmead, 1893) (♂); E. A. gibbosifrons Evans, 1959; F. A. grandis (Ashmead, 1887) (♀); G. A. grandis (Ashmead, 1887) (♂); H. A. insularis (Ashmead, 1894); I. A. interruptus Santos & Azevedo, 2000; J. A. laticeps Evans, 1959; K. A. nigripes Evans, 1966 (♀); L. A. nigripes Evans, 1966 (♂).