Anisepyris chupah Snelling, 1996
Revision of Anisepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of 135 new species
Barbosa, Diego N.
Azevedo, Celso O.
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Snelling, 1996
Snelling
1996
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Insecta
Bethylidae
Anisepyris
GBIF
Animalia
Hymenoptera
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Arthropoda
species
chupah
Anisepyris chupah Snelling, 1996, 17: 199–200.
Redescription, male.Body length 3.4 mm. Head and mesosoma black; wings sub-hyaline; metasoma dark castaneous. Head wide. Flagellomeres short. Mandible narrow, slightly angled, and with teeth equally wide. Median clypeal lobe rounded, short, with median tooth at apical margin. Frons coriaceous. Antennal scrobe carinate. Eye small. Frontal angle of ocellae forming right angle; ocelli small. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc as long as wide, strongly coriaceous; transverse pronotal carina complete; 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 polished; propodeal declivity polished. Mesopleuron with anterior fovea closed; mesopleural fovea opened; lower fovea opened; posterior fovea absent; mesopleural suture opened. Mesotibia not spinose. Genitalia.Basiparamere longer than paramere; paramere slender, rounded, with ventral and dorsal margin straight; basivolsella with excavation at inner margin; cuspis with arms long, dorsal arm slender.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRITISH VIRGIN ISL[AND]S, Guana I[ sland], North Beach woods, 18°29.1'N 64°34.5'W, dry evergreen forest, 7–12.VII.1993, Malaise [trap], R.R. Snelling col. ( LACM ENT164331).
Distribution. British Virgin Islands.
Remarks.The only specimen had its genitalia lost. The description and illustration of genitalia ( Fig. 27, pg. 199) are based on the original description.