Cleistepyris awaguaja Marques, Azevedo & Colombo, 2025

Marques Jr, Wilson J., Azevedo, Celso O. & Colombo, Wesley D., 2025, Revision of the Brazilian Northeastern Cleistepyris (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), with description of six new species, Zootaxa 5692 (1), pp. 1-30 : 3-4

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5692.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17321010

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0388E840-5835-1D73-FF13-F8861D1AF8F6

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Plazi

scientific name

Cleistepyris awaguaja Marques, Azevedo & Colombo
status

sp. nov.

Cleistepyris awaguaja Marques, Azevedo & Colombo sp. nov.

( Figs 1A View FIGURE 1 , 4A View FIGURE 4 , 7A View FIGURE 7 , 10A View FIGURE 10 , 11A, B)

Description. Male. Measurements (mm). Body length 3.20–5.52, LH 0.80–1.20, WH 0.82–1.24, WF 0.50–0.72, WOT 0.20–0.30. Color . Head and mesosoma black, metasoma dark brown; wings hyaline; antenna and legs light brown. Head. Malar space absent; median clypeal lobe angulate; gena not visible in dorsal view; mandible with one distinct ventralmost tooth and three remaining teeth fused; hypostoma strongly curved medially; frons punctured and smooth; frontal line absent; eye glabrous; anterior ocellus anterior to supra-ocular line. Mesosoma . Dorsal pronotal area punctured and smooth; notaulus narrow, incomplete anteriorly, diverging anterad; parapsidal signum narrow; metapostnotal median carina of metapectal-propodeal disc irregular, incomplete posteriorly. Hind wing thick, jugum not fused with remigium. Metasoma. Hypopygium with posterior margin incurved. Genitalia. Harpe with medial-dorsal corner partially arched, apical margin with small, well-delimited excavation, dorsal margin outcurved; cuspis divided in dorsal and ventral arms; dorsal arm laminar, apex acute and equally sized to ventral arm apex; ventral arm laminar and sharp, apex setose and anterior to apex of digitus; digitus with posterior margin smooth; aedeagus with apical lobe not gibbous, to such an extent that dorsal surface is flat, aedeagal apex posterior to apex of ventral arm of cuspis, with three pairs of apical lobes, outer lobe truncate, with apex posterior to inner lobe apex and inner lobe progressively narrowing apicad. Female. Unknown.

Variations. Third metapostnotal lateral carina of some paratypes of the type locality can be absent.

Differential diagnosis. This species is morphologically similar to C. paraensis by having the harpe with medial-dorsal corner partially arched, the apical margin with an emargination less than 0.15× the harpe length, the dorsal margin out curved and cuspis with ventral arm setose. However, C. awaguaja sp. nov. differs from C. paraensis by having the median clypeal lobe trapezoidal, the frontal line present and the anteromesoscutum with notaulus complete, whereas C. paraensis has the median clypeal lobe angulate, the frontal line absent and the anteromesoscutum with notaulus incomplete.

Etymology. The specific epithet awaguaja refers to the indigenous people “Awá-Guajá” from Maranhão, Brazil.

Material examined. Holotype, male: BRAZIL, MA[ranhão], Carolina, PAR [que] NA[cional] Chapada das Mesas, Riacho Sucuruiu , 07°07'05.6''S 47°18'31.6''W, 240m, Malaise trap, 20-30.xi.2013, J. A. Rafael, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T. T. A.Silva cols. ( CZMA) GoogleMaps ; Paratypes. Same data as the holotype, except: Cachoeira de Prata, 25- 30.vi.2009, A. L. Costa, M. B. Aguiar Neto, P.A. M.Moraes cols GoogleMaps ., 2 males, Malaise trap, 1 male, Light trap ( NESB) ; 1 male, Riacho Cancela , 07°06'44.2''S 47°17'56.8''W, 225m, Suspended trap, 14-30.vi.2013, J. A. Rafael, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira and T. T. A. Silva cols. ( CZMA) GoogleMaps ; Suspended Water-Surface trap, 1 male, 10-20.viii.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 10-20.ix.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, Malaise trap, 14-30.vi.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 1-10.ix.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 20-30.ix.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 01-10.x.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 20-31.xii.2013 ( NESB) ; 1 male, Riacho Corrente , 298 m, 07°04'29.2''S 47°05'42.2''W, Malaise trap, 20-31.viii.2013, J. A. Rafael, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T. T. A. Silva cols. ( CZMA) GoogleMaps ; 4 males, Riacho Estiva , 07°06'59.8''S 47°21'21.0''W, 265m, Double Suspended trap, J.A.Rafael, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T.T.A. Silva cols. ( CZMA, NESB) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, 01-15.vii.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 01-10.viii.2013 ( CZMA) ; 2 males, 10-20.ix.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, Suspended Water-Surface trap, 15-31.vii.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 01-10.xi.2013 ( NESB) ; 1 male, Riacho Sucuruiu , 07°07'05.6''S 47°18'31.6''W, 240m, 22- 01.x.2013, Malaise trap, J. A. Rafael, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, S. Pereira cols. ( CZMA) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, 14-30.vi.2013, J. A. Rafael, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T. T. A. Silva cols. ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 01-15.vii.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 15- 31.vii.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 01-10.viii.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 10-20.viii.2013 ( CZMA) ; 2 males, 20-31.viii.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 01-10.ix.2013 ( CZMA) ; 3 males, 10-20.ix.2013 ( CZMA, NESB) ; 2 males, 01-10.x.2013 ( CZMA) ; 2 males, 10-20.x.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 20-31.x.2013 ( CZMA) ; 2 males, 01-10.xi.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 10- 20.xi.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 13-20.xi.2013 ( CZMA) ; 2 males, 20-30.xi.2013 ( CZMA) ; 6 males, 01-10.xii.2013 ( CZMA) ; 2 males, 10-20.xii.2013 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 10-20.i.2014 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, 04.iii.2014 ( CZMA) ; 1 male, Simple Suspended trap 20m, 20-31.i.2014, J.A. Rafael, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T.T.A. Silva cols. ( NESB) ; 1 male, Mirador , Parq [ue] Estadual Mirador, Base da Geraldina, 06°37'25''S 45°52'08''W, Malaise trap, 08-14.iii.2013, L. S. Santos, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, L. L. M. Santos cols. ( CZMA) GoogleMaps ; 3 males, Riachão , Fazenda Altos, Malaise trap, 18-22.viii.2009, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, M. B. Aguiar Neto cols. ( CZMA, NESB) .

Distribution. Brazil ( Maranhão).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Cleistepyris

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