Dissomphalus muli, 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 : 519

Dissomphalus muli n. sp.

Figures 47, 143, 235, 428-430

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, Indonesia. ♂, New Guinea, Neth., Waris, S. of Hollandia, 450-500m, VIII.16-23.1959, sweeping, T. C. Maa Collector, Bishop ( BPBM). Paratypes. Indonesia. New Guinea, Neth., Waris, S of Hollandia, sweeping, T. C. Maa Coll., Bishop Museum, 2♂ 450-500m, 1-18.VIII.1959 ( BPBM); 1♂ 50-500m, 16-23.VIII.1959 ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 3.4 mm. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 47). Mandible with three apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth angled, outlined by carina; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and straight in profile. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin coarse, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas carinate. Metasoma (Figure 143). Tergal process with shallow, circular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.3 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, without setae; each depression with very small tubercle on its center, evenly wide in longitudinal section, very low, entirely dorsad, with small pit on top, with very small few setae dorsad. Hypopygium (Figure 235) with median stalk 1.0 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight or nearly so. Genitalia (Figures 428-430). Basal margin of paramere with subangled projection. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing abruptly apicad; apical lobe very long. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex lower than aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region rounded, narrow and smooth. Genital ring produced, each half convex in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition muli means lemon in Tok Pisin.