Dissomphalus kasang, 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 : 503-504

Dissomphalus kasang n. sp.

Figures 34, 129, 221, 378-379

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.721022, 145.2703), 1200m, 29-30/10/2012, leg Philip, Alois, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 2, understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW1200B-05/16-d05, P1798- 11309 ( MNHN). Paratypes. Indonesia. 1♂ New Guinea, Neth., Waris: S of Hollandia, 450-500m, 1-18.VIII.1959, sweeping T. C. Maa Coll., Bishop Museum ( BPBM); Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm, 1♂ (-5.720874, 145.2695) 1200m 26-28/10/2012, Coll. by Philip, Alois, Novotny, Leponce, understorey, FIT-MW1200-M-1/8-d02, P1584-200 ( MNHN); 1♂ (-5.731961, 145.2522), 700m, 31-01/11/2012, leg Keltim, Uma, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 4, understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW0700D-07/16-d07, P1442-11254 ( MNHN); 1♂ (-5.741031, 145.3294), 200m, 28- 13/09/2012, Coll. by Dilu, Ray, Novotny, Leponce, understorey, FIT-MW200-K-2/8-d04, P789-576 ( MNHN); New Guinea, NE, Mt. Kaindi, 1♂ 2200-2300m, 7. VI.1967, BMF 142 ( BPBM); 1♂ 7. VI.1971, Malaise Trap, J. L. Gressitt ( BPBM); Wau, 1♂ 1100-1200m, X.1968, N. L. H. Krauss Collector, Bishop Museum ( BPBM); 2♂ Hospital Ck, 1250m, 22. V.1965, J. Sedlacek, Malaise Trap Bishop Mus. ( BPBM); 1♂ Morobe Distr., Zenag to Gurakor, 760m, 16.VIII.1978, J. L. Gressitt Collector. Bishop Museum ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.2-2.9 mm. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous or black; metasoma castaneous or dark castaneous. Head (Figure 34). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth rounded or angulate; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and straight in profile. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin ecarinate or carinate, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas partly carinate. Metasoma (Figure 129). Tergal process with shallow or deep, longitudinally elliptical and sublateral pair of depression, 0.53 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with long and thin setae on lateral area, inner margin of depression strongly slightly or higher than median region of tergite II; each

depression with small or large tubercle on its inner area, conical in longitudinal section, high, entirely laterad, with small

pit on top, with long tuft of setae laterad. Hypopygium (Figure 221) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.4-1.8 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin weakly or strongly concave. Genitalia (Figures 378-379). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, evenly narrow, narrowing progressively apicad. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex lower than aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region subangled and smooth. Genital ring produced, each half convex in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition kasang means peanut in Tok Pisin.