Dissomphalus hama, 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 : 496-498

publication ID

1243-4442

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887BF-DE0D-7A7A-FF0A-0A433E4EF8DF

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scientific name

Dissomphalus hama
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus hama n. sp.

Figures 29, 123, 216, 363-364

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Wanang 3 station (-5.22767, 145.0797), 175m, 20-21/11/2012, leg Gewa, Damag, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 4, understorey, Malaise - MAL-WAN-D-05/16-d05, P0536- 9022 ( MNHN). Paratype. Papua New Guinea. 1♂ Province Madang, Wanang 3 station (-5.22767, 145.0797), 175m, 20- 21/11/2012, leg Basset, Plot 1, understorey, Malaise - MAL-WAN01-D03, P4902-9231 ( MNHN).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 1.7 mm. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous; metasoma castaneous. Head (Figure 29). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe ill-defined; median tooth rounded; median carina complete apically and straight in profile. Frons weakly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin ecarinate, weakly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas ecarinate. Metasoma (Figure 123). Tergal process with deep, longitudinally elliptical and sublateral pair of depression, 0.67 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with very long and thick setae on lateral area, inner margin of depression strongly higher than median region of tergite II; each depression with large tubercle on its inner area, conical in longitudinal section, low, entirely laterad, with small pit on top, with long few setae anterad. Hypopygium (Figure 216) with median stalk 1.2 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight with median concavity and with median elevation. Genitalia (Figures 363-364). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, evenly narrow; apical lobe small, apex with narrow and smooth projection on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex lower than aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region rounded, narrow and smooth. Digitus long. Genital ring straight, each half convex in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition hama means hammer in Tok Pisin.

FIGURES 191-202

Hypopygium plate in dorsal view. 191, D.abababa n. sp. 192, D. ailan n. sp. 193, D.ais n. sp. 194, D.aiskrim n. sp. 195, D.ambrela n. sp. 196, D. anien n. sp. 197, D.ananas n. sp. 198, D.anka n. sp. 199, D.balus n. sp. 200, D.biknait n. sp. 201, D.bilas n. sp. 202, D.binatang n. sp. Scale bars 125 µm.

FIGURES 203-214

Hypopygium plate in dorsal view. 203, D.bisket n. sp. 204, D.blakbokis n. sp. 205, D.blut n. sp. 206, D.bratasusa n. sp. 207, D.bun n. sp. 208, D.daimen n. sp. 209, D. dewel n. sp. 210, D.diwai n. sp. 211, D.eksospaip n. sp. 212, D.ensel n. sp. 213, D.gamtri n. sp. 214, D.gorgor n. sp. Scale bars 125 µm.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Dissomphalus

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