Dissomphalus eksospaip, Mugrabi & Azevedo, 2016

Mugrabi, Daniele F. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2016, Description of 91 new species of DIssomphalus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) from New Guinea Island and surrounded areas, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 209, pp. 451-564 : 491

Dissomphalus eksospaip n. sp.

Figures 22, 118, 211, 349-351

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.759269, 145.2356), 1700m, 27-28/10/2012, leg Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 1, understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW1700A-03/16-d03, P2170- 8755 ( MNHN). Paratypes. Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm, (-5.759269, 145.2356), 1700m, understorey, 2♂ 26-27/10/2012, leg Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 1, understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW1700A-02/16- d02, P2169-11358 ( MNHN); 1♂ 08-10/11/2012, Coll. by Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, FIT-MW1700-J-1/8-d01, P1950-18140 ( MNHN); 3♂ (-5.759910, 145.2347), 1700m, 26-27/10/2012, leg Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 2, understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW1700B-02/16-d02, P2185-11356 ( MNHN).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 3.3-4.8 mm. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 22). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth truncate, outlined by carina; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and convex in profile. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin ecarinate, weakly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas partly carinate. Metasoma (Figure 118). Tergal process with very shallow, subtriangular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.3 x as long as tergite II, parallel, with long and thin setae on anterior area; tubercle absent, instead with small pit, with small few setae anterad. Hypopygium (Figure 211) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.2 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight with median concavity. Genitalia (Figures 349-351). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex; wider medially, narrowing abruptly apicad; apical lobe diamond-shaped. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex lower than aedeagal dorsal body apex; slightly trifurcated on apical region; apical region with digitiform projections. Genital ring slightly produced, each half convex in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition eksospaip means exhaust pipe in Tok Pisin.