Genus Epyris Westwood, 1832

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• Epyris Westwood, J.O. 1832. Descriptions of several new British forms amongst the parasitic hymenopterous insects. Philosophical Magazine London 1: 127-129 [129].

  Type species:

   Epyris niger Westwood, 1832 by monotypy.
• Trissepyris Kieffer, J.J. 1905. Description de nouveaux Proctotrypides exotiques avec une planche et une figure dans le texte. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles. Série B. Sciences Physiques et Naturelles 29(2): 95-142 [109].

  Type species:

   Trissepyris ruficeps Kieffer, 1905 by monotypy.
• Parepyris Kieffer, J.J. 1913. Démembrement du genere Epyris. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scoula Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 7: 108 [108] [Synonymized by Evans 1964: 104].

  Type species:

   Parepyris interruptus Kieffer, 1913 by subsequent designation, see Kieffer, J.J. 1914. Bethylinae. Das Tierreich 41: 228-595 [410].
• Psilepyris Kieffer, J.J. 1913. Démembrement du genere Epyris. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scoula Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 7: 108 [108].

  Type species:

   Epyris indivisus Kieffer, 1913 by subsequent designation, see Kieffer, J.J. 1914. Bethylinae. Das Tierreich 41: 228-595 [401].
• Melanepyris Kieffer, J.J. 1913. Démembrement du genere Epyris. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scoula Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 7: 108 [108] [Synonymized by Azevedo & Alencar 2010a: 403].

  Type species:

   Epyris imicola Kieffer, 1913 by monotypy.
• Rhabdepyris Kieffer, J.J. 1904. Nouveaux proctotrypides myrmécophiles. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle (du Département de la Moselle) de Metz 23: 31-58 [32].

  Type species:

   Rhabdepyris myrmecophila Kieffer, 1904 by subsequent designation, see Kieffer, J.J. 1906. Proctotrypides. pp. 289-551 in André, E. Species des Hyménoptéres d'Europe & d'Algérie. Paris : A. Hermann Vol. 9 pp. 552. [376].

  Secondary source:

   Colombo, W., Tribull, C., Waichert, C. & Azevedo, C. 2021. Integrative taxonomy solves taxonomic impasses: a case study from Epyrinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae). Systematic Entomology 47: 504-529 [520].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Evans, H.E. 1964. A Synopsis of the American Bethylidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 132(1): 1-222
• Evans, H.E. 1969. A revision of the genus Epyris in the Americas (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 95(2): 181-352
• Krombein, K. V. 1992. Systematics of the genera of Epyrinae with ramose male antennae (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 94(3): 345-360
• Terayama, M. 2003. Phylogenetic systematic of the family Bethylidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Part II. Keys to subfamilies, tribes and genera in the world. Academic Reports Tokyo Polytechnic University Faculty of Engineering 26(1): 16-29
• Azevedo, C.O. & Alencar, I.D.C.C. 2010. Rediscovery of Melanepyris (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae): a new synonym of Epyris. Zoologia 27: 403-407 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1984-46702010000300012)
• Azevedo, C.O. & Alencar, I.D.C.C. 2010. Rediscovery of the Afrotropical genus Trissepyris Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), a new synonym of Epyris Westwood. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 6: 3-7

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU) ; WA: Gascoyne (GAS), Jarrah Forest (JF)

General References

Colombo, W., Tribull, C., Waichert, C. & Azevedo, C. 2021. Integrative taxonomy solves taxonomic impasses: a case study from Epyrinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae). Systematic Entomology 47: 504-529

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