Dissomphalus yelo, 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 : 561-562

Dissomphalus yelo n. sp.

Figures 96, 190, 280, 560-561

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. J. Sedlacek, Malaise Trap, Bishop Mus. ( BPBM). Paratype. Papua New Guinea. 1♂ NE New Guinea, East Highlands, Kundiawa, 6.I.1965, J. Sedlacek, Malaise Trap, Bishop Mus. ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 1.9-2.2 mm. Head, mesosoma and metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 96). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth subangulate, outlined by carina; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and convex in profile. Frons weakly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin ecarinate, weakly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas partly carinate. Metasoma (Figure 190). Tergal process with shallow, longitudinally elliptical and sublateral pair of depression, 0.38 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with small and thin setae on lateral area; each depression with large tubercle on its center, evenly wide in longitudinal section, low, entirely dorsad, with pit on top, with small tuft of setae posterad. Hypopygium (Figure 96, 190, 280) with median stalk 1.0 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight with median concavity. Genitalia (Figures 560-561). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing abruptly apicad; apical lobe diamond-shaped. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region rounded, narrow and smooth. Digitus small. Genital

ring produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition yelo means yellow in Tok Pisin.