Dissomphalus wara, 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 : 559

publication ID

1243-4442

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493824

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887BF-DE4C-7A39-FF2C-09FA38DDFBE4

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Felipe

scientific name

Dissomphalus wara
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus wara n. sp.

Figures 91, 185, 545-549

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. New Guinea (NE), Waghi V, Kerowagi area, 1700m, June 24, 1957, D. Elmo Hardy Colletor, Bishop Museum ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.8 mm. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous; metasoma castaneous. Head (Figure 91). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth angled; median carina complete apically and convex 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 185). Tergal process with deep, longitudinally elliptical and sublateral pair of depression, 0.45 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with long and thin setae on lateral area, inner margin of depression strongly higher than median region of tergite II; 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. Hypopygium lost. Genitalia (Figures 545-549). Paramere gibbous; basal margin of paramere with angled projection. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing abruptly apicad; dorsal surface projected in lateral view; apex with very long and crenulated projection on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region rounded, narrow and smooth.

FEMALE: Unknown.

REMARKS — The material of this species is in bad condition. The genitalia of holotype is in very bad condition and the genital ring and the hypopygium are lost.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition wara means water in Tok Pisin.

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

BPBM

Bishop Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Dissomphalus

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