Dissomphalus kakaruk, 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 : 500

publication ID

1243-4442

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493782

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887BF-DE11-7A64-FF0A-0B1E388EF9C3

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Dissomphalus kakaruk
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus kakaruk n. sp.

Figures 32, 126, 219, 371-373

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.759269, 145.2356), 1700m, 01-02/11/2012, leg Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 1, understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW1700A-08/16- d08, P2175-8771 ( MNHN). Paratypes. Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.759269, 145.2356), 1700m, leg Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, understorey, Malaise, 1♂ 02-03/11/2012, Plot 1, MAL-MW1700A-09/16- d09, P2176-8781 ( MNHN); 03-04/11/2012, 1♂ Plot 1, MAL-MW1700A-10/16-d10, P2177-8779 ( MNHN); 1♂ Plot 4, MAL-MW1700D-10/16-d10, P2225-8778 ( MNHN); 1♂ 07-08/11/2012, Plot 1, MAL-MW1700A-14/16-d14, P2181- 8797 ( MNHN); 1♂ 08-09/11/2012, Plot 4,MAL-MW1700D-15/16-d15, P2230-8799 ( MNHN); 1♂ 31-01/11/2012, Plot 1, MAL-MW1700A-07/16-d07, P2174-8775 ( MNHN); 1♂ 08-10/11/2012, FIT-MW1700-J-1/8-d01, P1950-18140 ( MNHN).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 3.5-4.3 mm. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 32). Mandible with three apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth rounded, outlined by carina; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and straight in profile. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin coarse, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas ecarinate. Metasoma (Figure 126). Tergal process with deep, longitudinally elliptical and sublateral pair of depression, 0.5 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with thin, small and long setae on anterior and lateral areas, inner margin of depression slightly higher then median region of tergite II; each depression with large tubercle on its center, conical in longitudinal section, low, entirely dorsad, with broad pit on top, with small tuft of setae posterad. Hypopygium (Figure 219) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.2 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin strongly sinuous. Genitalia (Figures 371-373). Basal margin of paramere with rounded projection. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing progressively apicad; apex with small and crenulated projection on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex, slightly trifurcated on apical region; apical region subangled and smooth. Digitus small. Genital ring slightly produced, each half convex in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition kakaruk means fowl 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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