Dissomphalus plaua, 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 : 532

Dissomphalus plaua n. sp.

Figures 60-62, 158, 249, 468-469

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. New Guinea, NE Zeng-Lae Road, 100m 1.V.1965, J. Sedlacek, Malaise Trap, Bishop ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.7 mm. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous; metasoma castaneous. Head (Figures 60-62). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth angled with flat platform overlap medium region; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and straight in profile. Two teeth on hipostomal carina rounded. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin coarse, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas partly carinate. Metasoma (Figure 158). Tergal process with shallow, subcircular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.39 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 small tubercle on its inner area, conical in longitudinal section, low, entirely laterad, with small pit on top, with small few setae anterad. Hypopygium (Figure 249) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.37 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight or nearly so and excavated medially. Genitalia (Figures 468-469). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, evenly narrow, narrowing progressively apicad; apical lobe small. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex lower than aedeagal dorsal body apex, deeply bifurcated on apical region; apical region subangled and smooth. Genital ring strongly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition plaua means flower in Tok Pisin.