Epyris asura Terayama 2006

Lim, Jongok, Lee, Jongwook, Koh, Sanghyun, Lee, Bongwoo, Azevedo, Celso O. & Lee, Seunghwan, 2011, Taxonomy of Epyris Westwood (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) from Korea, with the descriptions of ten new species, Zootaxa 2866, pp. 1-38 : 24

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scientific name	Epyris asura Terayama 2006
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12. Epyris asura Terayama 2006

( Figs 124–132 View FIGURES 124 – 132 )

Epyris asura Terayama 2006: 77 . Figs 145 View FIGURES 140 – 147 , 172, 173 View FIGURES 172 – 178 , Ƥ.

Material examined. Korea: 1 Ƥ, Cheollipo beach, Suwon-si, Taean-gun, CN, 17.IV.2009, S. Park leg.; 1 Ƥ, Dadohae Korea National Park, Sinjeon-ri, Chodo-myeon, Jindo-gun, JN, 34°17'05''N, 126°17'05''E, Light trap, 20.V.2009, J. Jung leg.

Diagnosis. Body length ~ 5.4 mm ( Fig. 124 View FIGURES 124 – 132 ); LFW ~ 2.9 mm ( Fig. 132 View FIGURES 124 – 132 ); mandible and antenna dark castaneous except scape black; legs black except tibia dark castaneous and tarsi castaneous. Head as long as wide. Vertex convex with rounded corners. Temple profile divergent anterad. Mandible with two teeth ( Fig. 126 View FIGURES 124 – 132 ). First five antennal segments in ratio of 4.0: 1.0: 1.1: 1.3: 1.3 in length, flagellomere 1 1.1 × as long as wide, flagellomere 11 2.1 × as long as wide ( Fig. 127 View FIGURES 124 – 132 ). Clypeus with subrounded median lobe. Frons polished with sparse punctures ( Fig. 125 View FIGURES 124 – 132 ). Eye with short hairs. HE 0.9 × OOL; WF 2.7 × WOT. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse. Pronotal disc 0.7 × as long as wide. Scutellar pit oval, each pit separated from each other by 2.3 × as its maximum diameter ( Fig. 128 View FIGURES 124 – 132 ). Propodeal disc 0.7 × as long as wide with three discal carinae, median carina reaching posterior carina, submedian discal carinae reaching two thirds of disc ( Fig. 131 View FIGURES 124 – 132 ). Fore wing without metacarpus; transverse-median vein strongly convex posteriorly ( Fig. 132 View FIGURES 124 – 132 ).

Variation. One specimen with castaneous mandible; scape dark castaneous to black; tarsi castaneous to dark castaneous; TL 5.2–5.4 mm; LP 0.73–0.75 × WP; propodeal disc 0.7–0.72 × as long as wide.

MALE. Unknown.

Distribution. Korea (CN, JN), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu).

Remarks. Two females examined in this study were collected in the beach, one of them from under a small rock with a larva of Tenebrionidae and another one was collected by light trap.