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Porter — Trachysphyrus & Aeliopotes 
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Genus AELIOPOTES Porter, new genus 
Type species: Amblyteles paitensis Cockerell. 
Fore wing 6.9-12.5 mm long. Coloration black with red gaster, 
partly red legs, white on flagellum, and wings blackish with metallic 
reflections. Flagellum moderately long and slender, scarcely flat- 
tened below apicad in female, in male with delicate and linear 
tyloids developed on some segments, its 1st segment 4. 6-4. 9 as long 
as deep at apex in females and 3. 0-3. 7 as long as deep in males. 
Clypeus weakly to very weakly, more or less symmetrically convex 
in profile, its apical margin slightly convex. Occipital carina sharp 
and narrow, joining the moderately elevated hypostomal carina 
below. Malar space 0.8- 1.0 as long as basal width of mandible. 
Pronotum: submarginal groove broad and usually rather shallow; 
epomia strong in scrobe and developed above into a broad and 
sharply differentiated, bluntly triangular or obtuse plate-like struc- 
ture. Mesoscutum: notauli fine and narrow, reaching 0.7-0. 8 the 
length of mesoscutum; surface shining with uniformly dense moder- 
ately small, sharp, adjacent to subadjacent punctures. Mesopleuron 
with the swollen speculum mostly smooth and shining; surface 
opposite speculum above along prepectal carina with a shining cal- 
lous that may be finely and densely punctate or which sometimes is 
punctured and longitudinally striate throughout or only peripher- 
ally invaded by longitudinal wrinkles and whose surface on upper 
half beyond callous is radiately wrinkled and on lower half is quite 
uniformly and coarsely puncto-reticulate and wrinkled. Fore tibia 
stout but not inflated. Hind coxa with a sharp and strong subverti- 
cal groove externo-ventrally near base. Wing venation: areolet 
large, intercubiti rather weakly to strongly convergent above; 2nd 
abscissa of radius 0.6-0. 8 as long as 1st intercubitus; 2nd recurrent a 
little reclivous, weakly and evenly curved or sometimes compara- 
tively more strongly curved on upper half; discocubitus gently 
arched, without a ramellus; mediella straight beyond base; axillus far 
from anal margin of wing, intermediate between anal margin and 
submediella. Propodeum: spiracle elongate, 2.0-2. 5 as long as wide; 
profile varying from moderately short and high (female) to rather 
low and elongate (male); basal trans-carina finely traceable through- 
out or often weak and irregular toward middle; apical trans-carina 
