Anisepyris smithanus ( Westwood, 1874 )

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 : 238-240

Anisepyris smithanus ( Westwood, 1874)

( Figs 29A ; 29F; 29G; 29L)

Epyris smithanus Westwood, 1874 , 160.

Epyris smithana Dalla Torre, 1898 . Synonym by Evans, 1966, 9: 117. Chlorepyris smithanus ( Westwood, 1874) . Combined by Kieffer, 1913, 7: 108. Anisepyris smithanus ( Westwood, 1874) . Combined by Evans, 1964, 132: 100 Anisepyris luteipes Kieffer, 1905 , 24: 97. Synonym by Evans, 1966, 9: 117.

Redescription, female. Body length 7.23 mm. Head with green reflection; mesosoma with green reflection and metapectal-propodeal disc black; wings subhyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Mandible with four distal teeth, wide, curved, and with superior tooth curved upward. Median clypeal lobe quadrate, long, with apical margin truncate; median clypeal carina hardly distinct from clypeus. Frons coriaceous ; with frontal process; antennal scrobe carinate and reaching compound eye. Eye large. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute; ocelli small. Vertex straight. Pronotal disc as long as wide, punctate; transverse pronotal carina complete; posterior margin without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus wide. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture fused with first metapostnotal carina; 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 closed; posterior fovea present; mesopleural suture closed. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia not spinose; claws trifid. Metasomal segments sparsely setose. 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, angled, and with dorsal lap strongly swollen posteriorly; 1rv strongly curved forward, ventral process small, and posterior process long; 2rv strongly curved forward.

Diagnosis, male. (extracted from Evans, 1966). Body length 5.5 mm. Head with golden-green reflection; mesosoma with golden-green reflection; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Flagellomeres long. Frons coriaceous . Ocelli large. Transverse pronotal carina present. Metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae.

Material examined. Holotype ( E. smithanus Westwood, 1874 ). Female. [ BRAZIL], F. Sm. Coll. 79–22 ( BMNH, 13289) . ECUADOR, Napo, 1 ♀, Limnococha, 250m, 15–28.vi.1976, S. & J. Peck ( CNCI) ; BRAZIL, Amazonas, 1 ♀, Manaus, Puraquequara, Sítio Vidal, Iguapé, 09–11.xi.1998, arm[adilha] Malaise, G.L. Vidal col[etor] ( INPA) ; Pará, 1 ♀, Anapu, Rio Xingu, Caracol, Barra do vento, 02–06.ii.2008, arm[adilha] Malaise, O.T. Silveira & equipe col[etores] ( MPEG) ; 1 ♀, Melgaço, Floresta Nacional Caxiuanã, Trila Iguapé Curua, 23–26.xi.2003, Arm[adilha]Möricke, A.P. Aguiar & J. Dias [coletores] (MPEG); 2 ♀, 14–17.xi.2003; 1 ♀, Iguapé Tijucaquara, 15–18.xi.2003; Rondônia, 1 ♀, Porto Velho, AABB, BR 364 , Km 8.5, 08°46'S 63°52'W, 04–11.xi.2004, arm[adilha] Malaise, D.F. Mugrabi col[etor] ( UFES 80493 ) .

Distribution. Ecuador; Brazil: Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia.

Figures

FIGURE 29. Anisepyris: venustus species-group. A–C. Head in dorsal profile. A. A. smithanus (Westwood, 1874); B. A. venustus Evans, 1964 (♂); C. A. venustus Evans, 1964 (♀);D–E. Mandible in frontal profile; G–J.Mesosoma in dorsal profile; K–M. Mesopleuron in frontal profile.