Anisepyris apache ( Evans, 1965 )

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 : 171

Anisepyris apache ( Evans, 1965)

( Figs 22B ; 23D; 23G; 23J)

Rhabdepyris (Trichotepyris) apache Evans, 1965 , 133: 91–93.

Anisepyris apache ( Evans, 1965) . Combined by Waichert & Azevedo, 2009, 2284: 23.

Redescription, female. Body length 8.4 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings subhyaline. Head wide. Mandible with five distal teeth, wide, curved, and step-shaped. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short, truncate at apical margin. Frons coriaceous ; antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli very small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc longer than wide, sparsely punctate; transverse pronotal carina absent; posterior margin without posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar disc with mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges absent; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina absent; metapleural carina present and inconspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc polished; propodeal declivity polished. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia spinose; claws trifid.

Redescription, male. Body length 4.92 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings clear hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short, with dense and short setae. Mandible narrow, curved, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe angulate, long. Frons coriaceous . Antennal scrobe ecarinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellar triangle obtuse; ocelli large. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous ; transverse pronotal carina present, incomplete; with posterior pronotal sulcus. Notaulus very narrow. Mesoscutellar sulcus narrow. Metapectal-propodeal disc short; metapostnotal median carina complete; longitudinal ridges present; metapostnotal-propodeal suture straight; paraspiracular carina absent; metapleural carina present and conspicuous; metapectal-propodeal disc with short striae; propodeal declivity strigate. Mesopleural fovea closed; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; suture opened. Forewing with stigma developed; Rs&M vein distinguished. Mesotibia spinose. Claws trifid. Metasomal segments glabrous. Genitalia. Basiparamere as long as paramere; paramere slender, rounded, and with ventral margin convex and dorsal margin straight, glabrous; basivolsella straight; cuspis with arms short, dorsal arm slender; aedeagus with basal portion convex and wide, and apical portion shorter than basal and very slender; apodeme slender.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, [ U.S.A.], Ariz [ona], Continental Pima Co., 18.VIII.1960, sucked/cotton, G. D. Butler col. ( MCZH, #30940) . Allotype, ♂, MEX [ICO], Son [ora], La Aduana, 22.IV.1962, F. D. Parker & L. A. Stange col. ( MCZH). MEXICO, Nayarit, 1 ♂, Acaponeta, Nay., v-4.1953, R.C. Bechtel, E.I. Schlinger collectors ( UFES 55845 ) .

Distribution. U.S.A.: Arizona; Mexico.

Figures

FIGURE 22. Anisepyris: megacephalus species-group. Head in dorsal profile. A. A. irmoi sp. nov.; B. A. apache (Evans, 1965); C. A. carolinianus (Evans, 1965) (♀); D. A. carolinianus (Evans, 1965) (♂); E. A. colimae Evans, 1966; F. A. delicatus Evans, 1966 (♀); G. A. delicatus Evans, 1966 (♂); H. A. inca Evans, 1966; I. A. megacephalus (Ashmead, 1893); J. A. pulchripennis (Evans, 1965); K. A. robustus Santos & Azevedo, 2000; L. A. texanus (Evans, 1965) (♀).