Cleistepyris tremembe 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 : 24-26

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17321046

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0388E840-5820-1D69-FF13-F8EE1DABFEEE

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Plazi

scientific name

Cleistepyris tremembe Marques, Azevedo & Colombo
status

sp. nov.

Cleistepyris tremembe Marques, Azevedo & Colombo sp. nov.

( Figs 3D View FIGURE 3 , 6D View FIGURE 6 , 9D View FIGURE 9 , 10F View FIGURE 10 , 11K, L)

Description. Male. Measurements (mm). length 2.88–4.48, LH 0.75–0.90, WH 0.78–0.94, WF 0.46–0.58, WOT 0.20–0.24. Color . Head and mesosoma black, prothorax brown, metasoma dark brown; wings hyaline; antenna brown; legs dark brown to 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 narrow and carinate; eye glabrous; anterior ocellus posterior to supra-ocular line. Mesosoma . Dorsal pronotal area punctured and smooth; notaulus complete, narrow, diverging posterad; metapostnotal median carina of metapectal-propodeal disc irregular, incomplete posteriorly. Genitalia. Harpe with medial-dorsal corner partially arched, apical margin with large excavation, dorsal margin straight, divided in dorsal and ventral arms, dorsal arm laminar, apex acute and diverging, ventral arm straight and setose posteriorly, apex posterior 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 two pairs of apical lobes, outer lobe apex anterior to inner lobe apex, outer lobe acute and inner lobe progressively narrowing. Female. Unknown.

Variations. There are no variations.

Differential diagnosis. This species is morphologically similar to C. quelatus by having the harpe with medial-dorsal corner partially arched, the apical margin with large excavation and the apical projection of basivolsella glabrous. However, C. tremembe sp. nov. differs from C. quelatus by having the hypostoma angled medially, the mesopleural epicoxal sulcus absent, the hypopygeal anteromedial apodeme absent, the dorsal harpal margin straight, the cuspis glabrous, the cuspis apex posterior to apex of digitus, the cuspis apex straight and aedeagus with one pair of apical lobes, whereas C. quelatus has the hypostoma curved medially, the mesopleural epicoxal sulcus present, the hypopygeal anteromedial apodeme present, the dorsal harpal margin outcurved, the cuspis setose, the cuspis apex anterior to apex of digitus, the cuspis apex sharp and aedeagus with two pairs of apical lobes.

Etymology. The specific epithet tremembe refers to the indigenous people “Tremembé” from Ceará and Maranhão, Brazil.

Material examined. Holotype, male: BRAZIL, MA[ranhão], Mirador , Parq [ue] Estadual Mirador, Base da Geraldina, 06°37'25''S 45°52'08''W, Malaise trap, 14-18.viii.2012, J. S. Pinto Júnior, F. L.-de-Oliveira and D.W. A. Marques cols. ( CZMA) GoogleMaps ; Paratypes. 1 male, [ no further data], Malaise trap, 18-25.iii.2012, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, D. W.A. Marques cols. ( CZMA) ; CE[ará], Ubajara , PAR[que] NA[cional] Ubajara, Cachoeira do Cafundó, 03°50'13''S 40°54'35''W, Malaise trap GoogleMaps , 1 male, 16-31.vii.2012, J. S. Pinto Junior and F. Limeira-de-Oliveira cols. ( NESB) ; 1 male, varredura, 20-22.vii.2012, J.A. Rafael and F. Limeira-de-Oliveira cols. ( CZMA) ; MA[ranhão], 2 males, same data as the holotype ( CZMA, NESB) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, 06°37'06''S 45°51'51''W, 411m, Malaise trap, 02-12.viii.2013, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, L. L. M. Santos and T.L. Rocha cols. ( CZMA) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, 06°37'48''S 45°52'49''W, 416m, 20- 31.xi.2013, T.L. Rocha, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira and L. L. M. Santos ( CZMA) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, 06°37'48''S 45°52'46''W, 428m, 19-28.ii.2013, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, L. L. M. Santos, L. S. Santos cols. ( CZMA) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, 20-31.viii.2013 ( CZMA) .

Distribution. Brazil ( Ceará, Maranhão).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Cleistepyris

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