Dissomphalus sis, 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

Dissomphalus sis n. sp.

Figures 73, 167, 259, 498-499

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.759269, 145.2356) 1700m, 25- 27/10/2012, Coll. by Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, understorey, FIT-MW1700-D-1/8-d01, P 1902-15374 ( MNHN).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 3.7 mm. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 73). Mandible with two apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth subangulate, 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 ecarinate. Metasoma (Figure 167). Tergal process with shallow, subcircular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.48 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with very long and thin setae on lateral area; each depression with small tubercle on its anterior area, evenly wide in longitudinal section, low, entirely dorsad, with small pit on top, with small few setae dorsad. Hypopygium (Figure 259) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.0 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight or nearly so. Genitalia (Figures 498-499). Basal margin of paramere with rounded projection. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider basally, narrowing progressively apicad. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex lower than aedeagal dorsal body apex, slightly trifurcated 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 sis means cheese in Tok Pisin.