Dissomphalus dewel, 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 : 487-488

Dissomphalus dewel n. sp.

Figures 20, 116, 209, 344-346

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.720874, 145.2695), 1200m, 25-26/10/2012, leg Philip, Alois, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 1, understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW1200A-01/16- d01, P1778-11294 ( MNHN). Paratypes. Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, understorey, 1♂ Wanang 3 station (-5.22767, 145.0797), 175m, 07-08/09/2012, leg Basset, Plot 3; Malaise, MAL-WAN03-D01, P043-227 ( MNHN); Mount Wilhelm, 1♂ (-5.720874, 145.2695), 1200m, 26-28/10/2012, Coll. by Philip, Alois, Novotny, Leponce, FIT-MW1200- M-1/8-d02, P1584-200 ( MNHN); (-5.731961, 145.2522), 700m, Coll. by Sam et al., Malaise, 1♂ 24-25/05/2013, MAL-MW0700’B-12/16-d12, P4728-20604 ( MNHN); 1♂ 27-28/05/2013, MAL-MW0700’B-15/16-d15, P4731-20559 ( MNHN).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 1.6-1.9 mm. Head black; mesosoma and metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Fi-

gure 20). Mandible with two apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe ill-defined; median tooth rounded; median carina absent. Frons weakly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin ecarinate, weakly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas ecarinate. Metasoma (Figure 116). Tergal process with deep, longitudinally elliptical and sublateral pair of depression, 0.6 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with very long and thick setae on lateral area; each depression with large tubercle on its inner area, evenly wide in longitudinal section, low, entirely laterad, with broad pit on top, with small tuft of setae laterad. Hypopygium (Figure 209) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.2 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin weakly concave and with median elevation. Genitalia (Figures 344-346). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing progressively apicad. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region with digitiform projections. Genital ring produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition dewel means shadow in Tok Pisin.