title: A revision of Evaniscus  (Hymenoptera, Evaniidae) using ontology-based semantic phenotype annotation.
abstract: The Neotropical evaniid genus Evaniscus  Szépligeti currently includes six species. Two new species are described, Evaniscus lansdownei  Mullins, sp. n. from Colombia and Brazil and Evaniscus rafaeli  Kawada, sp. n. from Brazil. Evaniscus sulcigenis  Roman, syn. n., is synonymized under Evaniscus rufithorax  Enderlein. An identification key to species of Evaniscus  is provided. Thirty-five parsimony informative morphological characters are analyzed for six ingroup and four outgroup taxa. A topology resulting in a monophyletic Evaniscus  is presented with Evaniscus tibialis  and Evaniscus rafaeli  as sister to the remaining Evaniscus  species. The Hymenoptera  Anatomy Ontology and other relevant biomedical ontologies are employed to create semantic phenotype statements in Entity-Quality (EQ) format for species descriptions. This approach is an early effort to formalize species descriptions and to make descriptive data available to other domains.
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7613, 2301 Gardner Hall, Raleigh, NC 27695-7613 USA.
authors.forename: Patricia L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Mullins
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kawada
authors.forename: James P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Balhoff
authors.forename: Andrew R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Deans