Dissomphalus suga, Mugrabi & Azevedo, 2016
publication ID |
1243-4442 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887BF-DE40-7A34-FF2C-0C9838EBFE33 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Dissomphalus suga |
status |
sp. nov. |
Dissomphalus suga n. sp.
Figures 78, 172, 263, 512-513
TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Indonesia. New Guinea ( NW), SE Biak I, 1.VII.1962, J. L. Gressitt & J. Sedlacek Collectors ( BPBM).
DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 3 mm. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous; metasoma castaneous. Head (Figure 78). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth subangulate; median carina complete 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 ecarinate. Metasoma (Figure 172). Tergal process with very shallow, longitudinally elliptical and sublateral pair of depression, 0.38 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with long and thick setae on lateral area; each depression with small tubercle on its inner
area, conical in longitudinal section, very low, entirely laterad, with small pit on top, with small seta dorsad. Hypopygium
(Figure 263) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.0 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin weakly concave. Genitalia (Figures 512-513). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing progressively apicad; apical lobe long and narrow. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex lower than aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region subangled and smooth. Genital ring straight, each half convex in dorsal view.
FEMALE: Unknown.
ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition suga means sugar in Tok Pisin.
BPBM |
Bishop Museum |
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