Dissomphalus maleo, 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 : 512

Dissomphalus maleo n. sp.

Figures 42, 138, 230, 410-412

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.731961, 145.2522), 700m, 23-24/05/2013, Coll. by Sam et al., understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW0700’C-11/16-d11, P4743-20618 ( MNHN). Paratypes. Papua New Guinea. 1♂ Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.731961, 145.2522), 700m, 17-18/05/2013, Coll. by Sam et al., understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW0700’C-05/16-d05, P4737-20837 ( MNHN).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 3.0- 3.5 mm. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 42). Mandible with two apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth rounded, outlined by carina; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and straight in profile. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin ecarinate, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas partly carinate. Metasoma (Figure 138). Tergal process with deep, circular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.33 x as long as tergite II, parallel, with small and thin setae on lateral area; each depression with large tubercle on its center, conical in longitudinal section, low, entirely dorsad, with broad pit on top, with small few setae dorsad. Hypopygium (Figure 230) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.3 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight or nearly so. Genitalia (Figures 410-412). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing progressively apicad; apical lobe small, apex with hand-shaped progression on outer lobe. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex, slightly bifurcated on apical region; apical region subangled and crenulated. Genital ring slightly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition maleo means eel in Tok Pisin.