Dissomphalus confusus Ashmead, 1894

Azevedo, C. O., 2003, Synopsis of the Neotropical Dissomphalus (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), Zootaxa 338 (1), pp. 1-74 : 68

Dissomphalus confusus Ashmead, 1894 ( Figs. 126–130 )

Dissomphalus confusus Ashmead 1894: 193 , 194–195, 1895: 786, Dalla Torre 1898: 558, Kieffer 1908: 36, 1914b: 496, 501–502, Evans 1964: 46.

Diagnosis. — Male. Length 1.92 mm. Mandible tetradentate. Clypeus with three small teeth, median carina high and angled in profile. Frons weakly coriaceous, with small punctures. Vertex slightly convex, with rounded corners. Notauli ill­defined and present only anteriorly. Metasomal tergite II with pair of small tufts of hairs, which lie in an inconspicuous depression ( Fig. 126 ). Genitalia ( Fig. 127–128 ): paramere with apical half as an elongate and sharpened expansion, basal half wide, with margins convex ( Fig. 129 ); volsella with digitus thin; aedeagus with ventral ramus much shorter than dorsal body, laminar, surface subhorizontal, base very wide, narrowing up to the acute apex, inner margin parallel, outer margin very converging; dorsal body with two pairs of apical lobes ( Fig. 130 ), outer pair laminar, outer surface convex, apex thin and directed downward, base wide in lateral view, inner pair fully attached to outer pair, stout, membranous, short, surface hairy; apodeme extending beyond the subtriangular genital ring.

Material examined. — HOLOTYPE: male, SAINT VINCENT, Leeward side, 52, H. H. Smith col. ( USNM #2496 ).

Comments. — This species is similar to D. politus in the genitalia.

Figures

FIGURES 118–130. 118–120. Dissomphalus clypeatus 118, paramere and basiparamere, lateral view; 119, process of basivolsella, ventral view; 120, outer lobe of aedeagus, lateral view; 121–125, Dissomphalus collaris 121, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; 122, metasoma, latero­dorsal view; 123, hypopygium, ventral view; 124, genitalia, ventral view; 125, genitalia, dorsal view; 126–130, Dissomphalus confusus 126, metasoma, dorsal view; 127, genitalia, ventral view; 128, genitalia, dorsal view; 129, paramere and basiparamere, lateral view; 130, dorsal body of aedeagus, lateral view. (Scale bars = 0.5 mm).