Anisepyris Kieffer, 1905

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 : 11-12

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Anisepyris Kieffer, 1905 , 9: 248. Type species: Epyris amazonicus Westwood. Subsequent designation by Kieffer & Marshal, 1905, 248.

Rhabdepyris (Lophepyris) Evans, 1959 , 61: 201–204. Type species: Rhabdepyris (Lophepyris) bridwelli Evans. Original designation. Synonymy by Evans, 1964, 132: 96.

Trichotepyris Kieffer, 1906 , 9: 376. Type-species: Rhabdepyris pallidipennis Kieffer. Subsequent designation by Muesebeck & Walkley, 1951, 2: 729 (proposed as subgenus of Rhabdepyris ). Synonymy by Kieffer, 1914, 41: 346. Subgenus designation by Evans, 1965, 133: 69. Synonymy by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 22.

Diagnosis. Body dark castaneous nearly black, mostly with metallic colour reflections. Head with dense compound eye pilosity; mandible with four or five distal teeth in females, and five distal teeth in males; clypeal carina complete and arched in lateral profile; antennal scrobe usuallycarinate. Pronotum with transverse carina, absent in few species. Notaulus complete; anterior half of parapsidal signum continuous. Metapectal-propodeal disc with metapostnotal carina incomplete, and not fused with posterior carina; propodeal declivity sculptured. Mesopleuron with all foveae well defined. Female genitalia with 2vf (second valvifer) very swollen apically. Male genitalia with basiparamere mostly dorsal; cuspis bifid.

Remarks. Some characters were observed for the first time in Anisepyris , such as the claw-shaped mandible ( Fig. 5F View FIGURE 5 ); the serrate antenna ( Fig. 14O View FIGURE 14 ); the antenna with second and third flagellomeres with distal spine projection ( Fig. 15A View FIGURE 15 ); the very long and slender clypeus ( Fig. 6I View FIGURE6 ); the clypeal carina fused and indistinct from the clypeus ( Fig. 6G View FIGURE6 ) or the carina very swollen ( Fig. 3E View FIGURE 3 ); the transverse pronotal carina with a series of foveae ( Fig. 15E View FIGURE 15 ); the pronotal disc with a median longitudinal line ( Fig. 15F View FIGURE 15 ); the posterior pronotal sulcus with a series of foveae ( Fig. 15E View FIGURE 15 ); the posterior mesoscutellar sulcus present ( Fig. 15D View FIGURE 15 ); the first pair metapostnotal carina and metapostnotal-propodeal suture convergent or fused ( Fig. 15J View FIGURE 15 ); and all characteristics related to female genitalia ( Fig. 30 View FIGURE 30 ).