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Epyris

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Bethylidae

Taxonomy

Epyris was named by Westwood (1832). It is extant. It is the type genus of Epyrini, Epyrinae.

It was assigned to Bethyllides by Westwood (1874); to Bethylinae by Ashmead (1893), Kieffer (1905) and Statz (1938); to Bethylidae by Carpenter (1992); to Epyrini by Sorg (1988) and Azevedo and Azar (2012); and to Epyrinae by Azevedo et al. (2018), Colombo and Azevedo (2021), Colombo et al. (2022) and Brazidec et al. (2023).

Species

E. deletus, E. kiefferi, E. moulyi, E. rectinervis, E. tenellus

Synonyms

Isobrachium was named by Forster (1856). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Epyris by Azevedo et al. (2018) and Colombo et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Bethylinae by Ashmead (1893); to Pristocerinae by Sorg (1988); to Bethylidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Epyrini by Azevedo and Azar (2012).
Rhabdepyris was named by Kieffer (1904). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Epyris by Azevedo et al. (2018) and Colombo et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Bethylinae by Kieffer (1905); to Bethylidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Epyrini by Sorg (1988) and Azevedo and Azar (2012).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1832	Epyris Westwood p. 129
1856	Isobrachium Forster p. 96
1874	Epyris Westwood p. 157
1893	Isobrachium Ashmead p. 36
1893	Epyris Ashmead p. 57
1904	Rhabdepyris Kieffer p. 32
1905	Epyris Kieffer p. 309
1905	Rhabdepyris Kieffer p. 375
1938	Epyris Statz p. 107
1988	Epyris Sorg p. 72
1988	Isobrachium Sorg p. 72
1988	Rhabdepyris Sorg p. 72
1992	Epyris Carpenter
1992	Isobrachium Carpenter
1992	Rhabdepyris Carpenter
2012	Epyris Azevedo and Azar p. 217
2012	Isobrachium Azevedo and Azar p. 217
2012	Rhabdepyris Azevedo and Azar p. 217
2018	Epyris Azevedo et al. p. 154
2021	Epyris Colombo and Azevedo p. 58
2022	Epyris Colombo et al.
2023	Epyris Brazidec et al. p. 365

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Hymenopterida
order	Hymenoptera
—	Unicalcarida
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
—	Aculeata	()
superfamily	Chrysidoidea
family	Bethylidae	Forster 1856
subfamily	Epyrinae	(Kieffer 1914)
genus	Epyris

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Epyris Westwood 1832

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†Epyris deletus Brues 1910

†Epyris kiefferi Brues 1933

†Epyris moulyi Falieres and Nel 2018

†Epyris rectinervis Cockerell 1921

†Epyris tenellus Statz 1938

Invalid names: Isobrachium Forster 1856 [synonym], Rhabdepyris Kieffer 1904 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Chattian or 56.00000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	France (Oise)	E. moulyi (123850)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	Artiepyris kiefferi (123927)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	United Kingdom (England)	Mesitius rectinervis (123959)
Chadronian	37.2 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	E. deletus (123119)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)	E. tenellus (122010)