Dissomphalus bilas, 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 : 476-479

publication ID

1243-4442

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887BF-DE39-7A49-FF0A-0F4838DDFC19

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scientific name

Dissomphalus bilas
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus bilas n. sp.

Figures 11, 108, 201, 315-317

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.720903, 145.2715), 1200m, 04-05/11/2012, leg Philip, Alois, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 3, understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW1200C-11/16-d11, P1820- 11338 ( MNHN). Paratypes. Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.720874, 145.2695), 1200m,

FIGURES 73-84

Head in lateral view. 73, D.sis n. sp. 74, D.slika n. sp. 75, D. sno n. sp. 76, D.soklet n. sp. 77, D.solwara n. sp. 78, D.suga n. sp. 79, D. susu n. sp. 80, D.switbiskit n. sp. 81, D.switmuli n. sp. 82, D.tapiok n. sp. 83, D. taun n. sp. 84, D.ting n. sp. Scale bars 100 µm.

FIGURES 85-96

Head in lateral view. 85, D.tisa n. sp. 86, D. toktok n. sp. 87, D.tudak n. sp. 88, D. tumbuna n. sp. 89, D. wailimbung n. sp. 90, D.wailis n. sp. 91, D.wara n. sp. 92, D.wetliva n. sp. 93, D.wik n. sp. 94, D. wilwil n. sp. 95, D. win n. sp. 96, D.yelo n. sp. Scale bars 100 µm.

understorey, Malaise, 1♂ 27-28/05/2013, Coll. by Sam et al., MAL-MW1200’A-15/16-d15, P4779-20969 (MNHN); leg Philip, Alois, Novotny, Leponce, 1♂ 25-26/10/2012, Plot 4, MAL-MW1200D-01/16-d01, P1826-11293 (MNHN); 1♂ 28-29/10/2012, Plot 1, MAL-MW1200A-04/16-d04, P1781-11307 (MNHN); 1♂ NE, Kassam Pass, 1550m, 14-20. XI.1967, Malaise tr, P. Colman Collector, Bishop ( BPBM); 1♂ NE, Morobe District, Mindik 1200-1600m, IX.1968, N. L. H. Krauss Collector, Bishop Museum ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.3-3.0 mm. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous or black; metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 11). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth subangulate; median carina complete 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 108). Tergal process with deep, longitudinally elliptical and sublateral pair of depression, 0.7 x as long as tergite II, parallel, with long and thin setae on latero-internal area, inner margin of depression slightly higher then median region of tergite II; each depression with small tubercle on its center, evenly wide in longitudinal section, low, entirely laterad, with small pit, with very small few setae dorsad. Hypopygium (Figure 201) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.3 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight with median concavity. Genitalia (Figures 315-317). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, narrower apically, narrowing abruptly apicad, apical lobe small. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex higher than aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region rounded, narrow and smooth. Digitus small. Genital ring strongly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition bilas means finery in Tok Pisin.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

BPBM

Bishop Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Dissomphalus

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