Dissomphalus microstictus

Colombo, Wesley D. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2016, Review of Dissomphalus Ashmead, 1893 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Espíri- to Santo, Brazil, with description of twenty-one new species, Zootaxa 4143 (1), pp. 1-84 : 23

microstictus species-group

Diagnosis. Male. Median clypeal lobe trapezoidal. Apex of aedeagal ventral ramus with latero-apical filament. Female: mandible tetradentate with subupper tooth smaller than uppermost one. Median clypeal lobe rounded, mid part elevated and thick in frontal view.

Remarks. This species-group contains 14 species: D. balteus , D. divaricatus , D. forceps , D. incurvatus , D. osseus , D. paululus , D. perparvus , D. perventriosus , D. pilus , D. signatus , D. uncus D. perturbatus , D. refertus , described by Alencar & Azevedo (2008) and D. microstictus Evans, 1969 , the latter three species are recorded from Espírito Santo.

Distribution. Panama, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina.