Dissomphalus gorgor, 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 : 495

publication ID

1243-4442

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493776

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887BF-DE0C-7A79-FF2C-0B7638EFF9C3

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Felipe

scientific name

Dissomphalus gorgor
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus gorgor n. sp.

Figures 25, 121, 214, 358-360

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.759269, 145.2356), 1700m, 01-02/11/2012, leg Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 1, understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW1700A-08/16-d08, P2175- 8771 ( MNHN). Paratypes. Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.759269, 145.2356), 1700m, 1♂ 26-27/10/2012, leg Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 1, understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW1700A-02/16-d02, P2169- 11358 ( MNHN); 1♂ 07-09/11/2012 Coll. by Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, FIT-MW1700-Q-6/8-d12, understorey, P2011-2244 ( MNHN); 1♂ NE New Guinea, East Highlands, Aiyura, 1900m, 9.I.1964, J. L. Gressitt, Malaise Trap, Bishop Museum ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 3.2-3.3 mm. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous or black; metasoma castaneous or dark castaneous. Head (Figure 25). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth rounded or truncate, outlined by carina; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and convex in profile. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin carinate, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas partly carinate. Metasoma (Figure 121). Tergal process with deep, subcircular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.54 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with thin, small and long setae on anterior and lateral areas; each depression with small tubercle on its inner area, evenly wide in longitudinal section, low, entirely laterad, with small pit on top, with small few setae anterad. Hypopygium (Figure 214) with median stalk 1.3 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin convex and with pair of median elevation. Genitalia (Figures 358-360). Basal margin of paramere with subangled projection. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing abruptly apicad. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex; deeply bifurcated forming two sheets, ventral sheet long, dorsal sheet small and crenulated. Digitus small. Genital ring straight, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition gorgor means ginger in Tok Pisin.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

BPBM

Bishop Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Dissomphalus

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