Dissomphalus graun, 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 : 495-496

publication ID

1243-4442

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493780

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887BF-DE0C-7A78-FF2C-0F4838F5FCC9

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Felipe

scientific name

Dissomphalus graun
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus graun n. sp.

Figures 26-28, 122, 215, 361-362

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.759910, 145.2347), 1700m, 26-27/10/2012, leg Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 2, understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW1700B-02/16-d02, P218- 11356 ( MNHN). GoogleMaps

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.6 mm. Head, mesosoma and metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figures 26-28).

Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe ill-defined; median tooth angled with flat platform overlap medium region; median carina absent. Two teeth on hipostomal carina angled. Frons weakly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin ecarinate, weakly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas ecarinate. Metasoma (Figure 122). Tergal process with deep, longitudinally elliptical and sublateral pair of depression, 0.6 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with long and thin setae on lateral area; each depression with large tubercle on its inner area, conical in longitudinal section, high, entirely dorsad, with broad pit on top, with long tuft of setae dorsad. Hypopygium (Figure 215) with median stalk evenly narrow, 0.8 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight with median concavity. Genitalia (Figure 369-370). Paramere with dorsal margin much developed, to such an extent that covers aedeagus. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing abruptly apicad; apical lobe very long. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex lower than aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region rounded, narrow and smooth. Genital ring produced, each half convex in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition graun means world in Tok Pisin.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Dissomphalus

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