Dissomphalus popo, 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 : 535

Dissomphalus popo n. sp.

Figures 64, 160, 251, 472-474

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. New Guinea, NE Wau, Mt. Missim, 950-1300 m, 16-18.VII.1969, J. L. Gressitt, Malaise Trap, Bishop Museum, Y. Hirashima Collector, Bishop Museum ( BPBM). Paratype. Papua New Guinea. 1♂ New Guinea, Mt. Suckling, 500m, Mayu I, 13-16.VII.1972, J. L. Gressitt, Malaise Trap, Bishop Museum ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.0- 2.7 mm. Head and mesosoma castaneous; metasoma light castaneous. Head (Figure 64). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth angled, outlined by carina; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and straight in profile. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin ecarinate, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas partly carinate. Metasoma (Figure 160). Tergal process with shallow,subcircular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.38 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with very long and thin setae on lateral area; each depression with very small tubercle on its center, evenly wide in longitudinal section, very low, entirely laterad, with small pit on top, with small few setae dorsad. Hypopygium (Figure 251) with median stalk 1.0 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight with median concavity. Genitalia (Figures 472-474). Basal margin of paramere with subangled projection. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing abruptly apicad; apex with small and bilobed projection on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex higher than aedeagal dorsal body apex, narrowing abruptly medially, inner margin with digitiform projections. Genital ring produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition popo means papaya in Tok Pisin.