Cleistepyris neotropicus ( Evans, 1963 )

Cleistepyris neotropicus ( Evans, 1963)

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Rhabdepyris paraensis Kieffer, 1910 (In Kieffer, 1910b), 78: 298–299 (male, holotype from Brazil, Pará, USNM, examined). Synonymized under Cleistepyris by Kieffer 1914. Junior subjective synonym of Cleistepyris neotropicus ( Evans, 1963) according to Kieffer 1914: 492–493.

Apenesia neotropica Evans, 1963: 318–319 (male, voucher from Peru, Santarém, figs 76, 90) [replacement name of Rhabdepyris paraensis ]; Kieffer 1914: 491–493; Evans 1963: 33.

Redescription. Male. Measurements (mm). Body length 3.20–4.08, LH 0.80–0.90, WH 0.88–1, WF 0.40–0.58, WOT 0.26–0.28. Color . Head and mesosoma black, metasoma dark brown; wings hyaline; antenna light brown; legs dark brown to light brown. Head. Malar space absent; median clypeal lobe angulate; gena not visible in dorsal view; mandible with three distinct apical teeth; hypostoma curved medially; frons punctured and coriaceous; frontal line narrow and carinate; eye glabrous; anterior ocellus anterior to supra-ocular line. Mesosoma . Dorsal pronotal area punctured and coriaceous; notaulus complete, broad, diverging anterad; 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 hypopygeal margin incurved. Genitalia. Harpe with its surface strongly arched longitudinally to such an extent that it looks like bilaminar, apical margin outcurved, dorsal margin straight, divided in dorsal and ventral arms; dorsal arm laminar, apex rounded and posterior to ventral arm apex; ventral arm laminar and rounded, apex setose and aligned to apex of digitus; digitus with posterior margin smooth; aedeagus with apical lobe gibbous to such an extent that dorsal surface is convex, aedeagal apex posterior to apex of ventral arm of cuspis, with two pairs of apical lobes, outer lobe apex posterior to inner lobe apex, outer and inner lobe narrowing apicad. Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Type material. Holotype, male: BRAZIL, Pará, Baker col. ( CASC #17057 ). New material. BRAZIL, CE[ará], Ubajara, PAR[que] NA[cional] Ubajara , Cachoeira do Cafundó , 03°50'13''S 40°54'35''W, 1 male, Malaise trap, 01-14.ii.2013, J. A. Rafael and F. Limeira-de-Oliveira cols. ( CZMA); 1 male, varredura, 01- 06.vii.2013, [J. A.] Rafael F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T. T. A Silva cols. ( CZMA); MA[ranhão], Mirador, Parq [ue] Estadual Mirador, Base da Geraldina , 06°37'25''S 45°52'08''W, Malaise trap, 1 male, 14-18.viii.2012, D. W. A Marques and F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, J. S. P. Júnior cols. ( CZMA); 2 males, 08-14.iii.2013, L. S. Santos, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, L. L. M. Santos cols. ( CZMA, NESB); 1 male, 06°37'06''S 45°51'51''W, 01-12.viii.2013 ( CZMA); PI[auí], Guaribas, PAR[que] NA[cional] Serra das Confusões, Andorinhas, 1 male, 09°08'27.8''S 43°33'42.1''W, Malaise trap, 515 m, 01-10.xi.2013, J.A. Rafael, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T.T.A. Silva cols. ( CZMA). GoogleMaps

Distribution. Brazil ( Espírito Santo, Ceará, Maranhão, Pará, Piauí).

Remarks. This species was recorded from Espírito Santo and Pará and for the first time is recorded from Ceará, Maranhão and Piauí, Brazil.