Dissomphalus kina, 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 : 504

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scientific name	Dissomphalus kina
status	sp. nov.

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Dissomphalus kina n. sp.

Figures 35, 130, 222, 380-382

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.731961, 145.2522), 700m, 26-27/05/2013 Coll. by Sam et al., understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW0700’D-14/16-d14, P4762-20553 ( MNHN). Paratypes. Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.731961, 145.2522), 700m, Coll. by Sam et al., understorey, Malaise, 1♂ 18-19/05/2013, MAL-MW0700’D-06/16-d06, P4754-20852 ( MNHN); 1♂ 22-23/05/2013, MAL- MW 0700’D-10/16-d10, P4758-20624 ( MNHN).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.7-3.6 mm. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 35). Mandible with two 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 ecarinate, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas partly carinate. Metasoma (Figure 130). Tergal process with shallow, subtriangular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.3 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with long and thin setae on anterior and lateral areas; tubercle absent, instead with small pit, with small few setae posterad. Hypopygium (Figure 222) with median stalk 1.3 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight or nearly so. Genitalia (Figures 380-382). Basal margin of paramere strongly excavated. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing progressively apicad; apex with circular and crenulated projection on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical and median regions with digitiform projections. Genital ring straight, each half convex in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition kina means kina , the standard monetary unit of Papua New Guinea.