Dissomphalus switmuli, 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 : 551

publication ID

1243-4442

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493814

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scientific name

Dissomphalus switmuli
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus switmuli n. sp.

Figures 81, 175, 266, 520-522

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. New Guinea, NE, Wau, Hospital Ck, 1250m, 7.V.1965, J. Sedlacek, Malaise Trap, Bishop ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.1 mm. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous; metasoma castaneous. Head (Figure 81). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe ill-defined; median tooth subangulate; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and convex in profile. Frons weakly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin ecarinate, weakly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas partly carinate. Metasoma (Figure 175). Tergal process without depressions, with small and thin setae; with large tubercle, evenly wide in longitudinal section, very low, entirely laterad, with broad pit on top, without setae. Hypopygium (Figure 266) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.23 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight or nearly so and pair of lateral elevations. Genitalia (Figures 520-522). Basal margin of paramere with rounded projection. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex higher than parameral apex, evenly wide, narrowing abruptly apicad; apex with small projection hand-shaped on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex, deeply bifurcated on apical region; apical region with digitiform projections. Digitus small. Genital ring straight, each half sinuous in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition switmuli means orange in Tok Pisin.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Dissomphalus