Cleistepyris megaventris ( Azevedo & Batista, 2002 )

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 : 10-11

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scientific name	Cleistepyris megaventris ( Azevedo & Batista, 2002 )
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Cleistepyris megaventris ( Azevedo & Batista, 2002)

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Apenesia megaventris Azevedo & Batista, 2002: 29–31 (male, holotype, from Brazil, Acre, figs 8,18, UFES, examined); Ramos & Azevedo 2009: 352.

Redescription. Male. Measurements (mm). Body length 3.44, LH 0.76–0.88 WH 0.78–0.88, WF 0.46–0.50, WOT 0.20–0.26. 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 five distinct apical teeth; hypostoma curved medially; frons punctured and smooth; frontal line narrow and sulcate; eye glabrous; anterior ocellus posterior to supra-ocular line. Mesosoma . Dorsal pronotal area punctured and smooth; notaulus complete, narrow, diverging posterad; parapsidal signum narrow; metapostnotal median carina of metapectal-propodeal disc irregular, complete posteriorly. Hind wing thick, jugum not fused with remigium. Metasoma. Hypopygium with posterior margin straight. Genitalia. Harpe with medial-dorsal corner partially arched, apical margin strongly emarginated, dorsal margin outcurved, divided in dorsal and ventral arms; dorsal arm laminar, apex rounded and anterior to ventral arm apex; ventral arm laminar and acute, apex glabrous and posterior to apex of digitus; aedeagus with apical lobe not gibbous to such an extent that dorsal surface is flat, aedeagal apex anterior to apex of ventral arm of cuspis, with one pair of apical lobes, lobe progressively narrowing apically. Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Type material. Holotype, male: BRAZIL, Acre, Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, ponto norte 9, 20-21.XI.1996, Malaise trap, E. F. Morato col. ( UFES). New material. BRAZIL, MA[ranhão], Carolina, PAR [que] NA[cional] Chapada das Mesas, Riacho Corrente , 07°04'24.2''S 47°05'25.2''W, 288m, 1 male, Malaise trap, 20-30.ix.2013, J. A. Rafael, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T. T. A. Silva cols. ( CZMA); PI[auí], Caracol, PAR[que] NA[cional], Serra das Confusões, 1 male, Malaise trap, 20-31.viii.2013, J. A. Rafael, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T. T. A.Silva cols. ( CZMA). GoogleMaps

Distribution. Brazil ( Acre, Maranhão, Pará).

Remarks. This species was recorded from Acre and Pará and for the first time is recorded from Maranhão,

Brazil.