Apenesia vaurieorum Evans, 1969

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Apenesia vaurieorum Evans, 1969

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Apenesia vaurieorum Evans 1969a: 71 : 519. ♀.

Apenesia vauricorum [lapsus ] in Gordh & Móczár 1990, 46: 213 (catalog).

Diagnosis. Female. Length 6.5 mm. Color. Body castaneous. Mandible with two large sharpened apical teeth. Clypeus extending backward into frons, with short, broad trapezoidal median lobe, apical margin straight. Eye subcircular, with eight facets. Malar space as long as eye length. Frons weakly coriaceous, punctures small and very sparse. Head quadrate with sides straight and parallel anteriorly, convex posteriorly, 1.08 × as long as wide. Vertex straight. Occipital carinae visible in dorsal view. Dorsal pronotal area with lateral margin parallel, sides diverging downward. Maximum width of metapectal-propodeal complex 1.65 × its minimum width, spiracles placed at lateral of propodeum, below constriction. Mesotibia strongly spinose. Tarsi spinose, claws simple. Metasoma as long as head and mesosoma together, petiole very short.

Material examined. Holotype ♀: Antilles : JAMAICA, Hardwar Gap, 4800’, 13–15.VII.1960, P. & C. Vaurie col. ( AMNH).

Distribution. Neotropical ( Jamaica).

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).