Dissomphalus opis, 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 : 524

publication ID

1243-4442

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493794

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887BF-DE69-7A1C-FF0A-0BB038EEFAB9

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Felipe

scientific name

Dissomphalus opis
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus opis n. sp.

Figures 53, 151, 242, 446-450

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. New Britain, Gisiluve, Naka nai Mts., 1050m. July 25.1956, E. J. Ford Jr. Collector ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.7 mm. Head, mesosoma and metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 53). Mandible with two apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth angled; 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 151). Tergal process with shallow, longitudinally elliptical and sublateral pair of depression, 0.33 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with long and thick setae on lateral area; each depression with small tubercle on its inner area, conical in longitudinal section, low, entirely anterad, with small pit on top, with very small seta anterad. Hypopygium (Figure 242) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.18 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin strongly concave. Genitalia (Figure 446-450). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, narrower apically; apical lobe small and board; apex with small and hooked projection on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex higher than aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region subangled and smooth with digitiform median projections. Genital ring slightly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition opis means office in Tok Pisin.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Dissomphalus

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