Dissomphalus slika, 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 : 543-544

Dissomphalus slika n. sp.

Figures 74, 168, 260, 500-502

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. New Guinea, SE Mamai Pltn, E. of Port Glasgow, 150m, 31.I.1965, R. Straatman, Ligth Trap, Bishop ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.9 mm. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous; metasoma castaneous. Head (Figure 74). Mandible with two apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth truncate; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and straight 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 168). Tergal process with shallow, longitudinally elliptical and sublateral pair of depression, 0.68 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, evenly wide in longitu-

dinal section, very low, entirely dorsad, with broad pit on top, with small few setae posterad. Hypopygium (Figure 74,

168, 260) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.45 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin strongly sinuous. Genitalia (Figures 500-502). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider basally, narrowing abruptly apicad; apical lobe diamond-shaped. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex, slightly trifurcated; apical region subangled and smooth with hairy lobes. Genital ring strongly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition slika means silk in Tok Pisin.