Dissomphalus toktok, 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 : 555-556

publication ID

1243-4442

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Dissomphalus toktok
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus toktok n. sp.

Figures 86, 180, 271, 534-535

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Indonesia. New Guinea, Neth , Vogelkop, Bomberi, 700-900m, VI-3-‘59, J. L. Gressitt Collector, Bishop Museum ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 3.7 mm. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 86). 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 carinate, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas carinate. Metasoma (Figure 180). Tergal process without depressions, with thin, small and long setae; very small tubercle, conical in longitu-

dinal section, very low, entirely dorsad, with small pit on top, with very small few setae dorsad. Hypopygium (Figure 271) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.35 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin strongly concave. Genitalia (Figures 534-535). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, evenly narrow, narrowing abruptly apicad; apical lobe small. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex, very slightly bifurcated on apical region; apical region rounded, narrow and smooth. Genital ring strongly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition toktok means conversation in Tok Pisin.

FIGURES 562-567

Male genitalia, a, ramous of digitus; b, digitus; c, cuspis. 562-563, D. anien n. sp. 564, D. ananas n. sp. 565-567, Trichiscus noorti . Scale bars 50 µm, except 564,567 - 20 µm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Dissomphalus

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