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Genus Anisepyris

Anisepyris williamsi - female Anisepyris occidentalis - female wasp? - Anisepyris - female Bethylidae Bee Genus Anisepyris - Anisepyris - female Bethylid close-up - Anisepyris FL bethylid - Anisepyris FL bethylid - Anisepyris FL bethylid - Anisepyris
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Chrysidoidea (Cuckoo Wasps & allies)
Family Bethylidae (Flat Wasps)
Subfamily Epyrinae
Genus Anisepyris
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
7 spp. of our fauna have been recently transferred here from Rhabdepyris(1)
Explanation of Names
Anisepyris Kieffer, 1905
Numbers
23 spp. in our area,(2)(3) ~120 total(1)
Range
New World, mostly Neotropical(1)
Works Cited
1.Phylogenetic analysis of Rhabdepyris (Hym.: Bethylidae) and redefinition of generic limits based on morphological characters
Cecilia Waichert & Celso O. Azevedo. 2009. Zootaxa, 2284: 1-29.
2.Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.
3.Nomina Insecta Nearctica
Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.