Dissomphalus pukpuk, 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 : 535-536

Dissomphalus pukpuk n. sp.

Figures 65-66, 161, 252, 475-477

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. New Guinea, (NE) Wau, Morobe Distr, 1200m, 11.IX.1961, J. Sedlacek, Malaise Trap, Bishop ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 3.2.0 mm. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figures 65-66). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth subangulate with flat platform overlap medium region; median carina absent. Two teeth on hipostomal carina angled. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin ecarinate, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas partly carinate. Metasoma (Figure 161). Tergal process with shallow, subcircular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.24 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with very long and thick setae on lateral area; each depression with large tubercle on its center, conical in longitudinal section, high, entirely dorsad, with broad pit on top, with very small tuft of setae laterad. Hypopygium (Figure 252) with lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin strongly

concave and with median elevation. Genitalia (Figures 475-477). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral

apex, wider medially, narrowing abruptly apicad; apex with small and smooth projection on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex higher than aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region subangled and smooth with digitiform median projections. Cuspis small. Genital ring produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition pukpuk means crocodile in Tok Pisin.