Apenesia flavipes Cameron, 1888

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Apenesia flavipes Cameron, 1888

( Fig. 26B )

Apenesia flavipes Cameron 1888: 1 : 449, tab. 19, fig. 11. ♀; Kieffer 1908, 76: 25 (catalog); Kieffer 1914, 41: 392, 395; Evans 1963, 130: 269, 357–358; Evans 1964, 132: 32; Gordh & Móczár 1990, 46: 203 (catalog).

Diagnosis. Female. Length 5.2 mm. Color. Body castaneous. Mandible with two apical teeth. Clypeus extending back frons, median lobe broadly trapezoidal, apical margin with bristles, median carina straight in profile. Eye dark, elliptical, with about 12 facets. Malar space shorter than eye length. Frons polished punctures sparse. Head quadrate with sides parallel and convex, vertex straight, 1.03 × as long as wide. Dorsal pronotal area with sides nearly parallel. Maximum width of metapectal-propodeal complex 1.82 × its minimum width. Mesotibia strongly spinose. Metasoma as long as head and mesosoma together, petiole short.

Material examined. Holotype ♀: [ PANAMA, Chiriqui], V [olcan] de Chiriqui, 2000–3000 f[ee]t, [G. C.] Champion col. ( BMNH, 13255).

Distribution. Neotropical ( Panama).

Figures

FIGURE 26. Body. A. Apenesia dominica; B. Apenesia flavipes; C. Apenesia formosa; D. Apenesia levis, E. Apenesia nigra; F. Apenesia proxima; G. Apenesia substriata; H. Apenesia unicolor; I. Apenesia vaurieorum. (Scale 250µm).