Phylogeny and semantic revision of Evaniscus Szépligeti (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae)

The Neotropical evaniid genus Evaniscus Szépligeti currently includes six species. The Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology and other relevant phenotypic ontologies are employed to create formalized entity-quality statements to describe species. This novel descriptive method is an early effort to revolutionize the taxonomic process and make species descriptions accessible to the taxonomic community. Two new species are described, Evaniscus lansdownei from Colombia and Brazil and E. rafaeli from Brazil. Evaniscus sulcigenis Roman syn. n., is synonymized under E. rufithorax Enderlein. Thirty-five parsimony informative morphological characters are analyzed for six ingroup and four outgroup taxa. A topology resulting in a monophyletic Evaniscus with E. tibialis and E. rafaeli as sister to the remaining Evaniscus species is presented.