Dissomphalus taun, 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 : 552

publication ID

1243-4442

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493816

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887BF-DE45-7A30-FF0A-0BCE38EBFA04

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scientific name

Dissomphalus taun
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus taun n. sp.

Figures 83, 177, 268, 525-528

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Indonesia. New Guinea, Neth, Waris, S of Hollandia, 450-500m, 1-18.VIII.1959, sweeping T. C. Maa, Coll, Bishop Museum ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 3.9 mm. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma castaneous. Head (Figure 83). Mandible with three apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth rounded, outlined by carina; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and angled in profile. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin coarse, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas partly carinate. Metasoma (Figure 177). Tergal process with shallow, circular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.16 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with very long and thin setae on lateral area, inner margin of depression slightly higher then median region of tergite II; each depression with large tubercle on its inner area, conical in longitudinal section, very low, entirely laterad, with small pit on top, with very small few setae. Hypopygium (Figure 268) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.0 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin weakly concave and excavated medially. Genitalia (Figures 525-528). Basal margin of paramere strongly excavated. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing abruptly apicad; apical lobe small and diamond-shaped. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region subangled and smooth with digitiform median projections. Genital ring slightly produced, each half convex in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition taun means town in Tok Pisin.

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Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

BPBM

Bishop Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Dissomphalus

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