Dissomphalus wailis, 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 : 558

Dissomphalus wailis n. sp.

Figures 90, 184, 275, 542-544

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. West New Guinea, Central Mts, Archbold Lake, 760m, 26.XI-3. XII.1961, Light trap, S. Quate & L. Quate ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.6 mm. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous; metasoma castaneous. Head (Figure 90). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth truncate, outlined by carina; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and convex 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 184). Tergal process with deep, longitudinally elliptical and sublateral pair of depression, 0.8 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with long and thin setae on lateral area; each depression with small tubercle on its inner area, conical in longitudinal section, low, entirely laterad, with small pit on top, with long few setae anterad. Hypopygium (Figure 275) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.35 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight or nearly so. Genitalia (Figures 542-544). Basal margin of paramere with angled projection. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing abruptly apicad. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex lower than aedeagal dorsal body apex; deeply trifurcated forming tree sheets, dorsal, median and ventral sheets smooth and subangled. Genital ring produced, each half convex in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition wailis means radio in Tok Pisin.