Cleistepyris piripiri 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 : 16-18

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E48DDDA4-1E5B-4D6C-900A-785F513FD064

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0388E840-5838-1D61-FF13-F97D1D22FE5E

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Cleistepyris piripiri Marques, Azevedo & Colombo
status

sp. nov.

Cleistepyris piripiri Marques, Azevedo & Colombo sp. nov.

( Figs 2D View FIGURE 2 , 5D View FIGURE 5 , 8D View FIGURE 8 , 10D View FIGURE 10 , 11G, H)

Description. Male. Measurements (mm). Body length 3.20–3.44, LH 0.80, WH 0.84–0.86, WF 0.42–0.50, WOT 0.20–0.22. 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 angled medially; frons punctured and smooth; frontal line absent; eye glabrous; anterior ocellus posterior to supra-ocular line. Mesosoma . Dorsal pronotal area punctured and smooth; notaulus incomplete anteriorly, narrow, diverging posterad; 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 strongly emarginated, dorsal margin ondulated, divided in dorsal and ventral arms; dorsal arm laminar, apex acute and equally sized to ventral arm apex; ventral arm laminar and acute, apex setose posteriorly and aligned 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, lobes acute apically. Female. Unknown.

Variations. There are no variations

Differential diagnosis. The genitalia of this species is morphologically distinct from all other species by having the dorsal harpal margin ondulate. Etymology. The specific epithet piripiri refers to the indigenous people “Piripiri” from Piauí, Brazil. Material examined. Holotype, male: BRAZIL, PI[auí], Piracuruca, P[arque] N[acional] de Sete Cidades, Posto do ICMBio, 04°05'57''S 41°42'34''W, Malaise trap, 12-27.iii.2013, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, T. T. A. Silva cols. ( CZMA); Paratypes. PI[auí] GoogleMaps , 1 male, same data as the holotype ( NESB) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, Suspended trap, 15-28.ii.2013, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, J. S. Pinto Júnior cols. ( CZMA). Distribution. Brazil ( Piauí) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Cleistepyris

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