Dissomphalus tisa, 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

publication ID

1243-4442

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493818

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887BF-DE48-7A3D-FF2C-0BEB38D9FAB9

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Felipe

scientific name

Dissomphalus tisa
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus tisa n. sp.

Figures 85, 179, 270, 532-533

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Indonesia. New Guinea, Neth , Cyclops Mts, Ifar, 300m, 21.VI.1959, T. C. Maa, Coll, Bishop Museum ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 1.9 mm. Head dark castaneous; mesosoma and metasoma castaneous. Head (Figure 85). Mandible with three apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe ill-defined; median tooth rounded; 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 ecarinate. Metasoma (Figure 179). Tergal process absent. Hypopygium (Figure 270) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.3 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight or nearly so and with median elevation. Genitalia (Figures 532-533). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing progressively apicad; apex with small and digitiform projection on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex lower than aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region subquadrate with digitiform inner projections. Genital ring slightly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition tisa means teacher 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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