Dissomphalus sanda, 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 : 539-540

Dissomphalus sanda n. sp.

Figures 70, 165, 256, 484-488

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. NE New Guinea, Wau , Nami Creek, 1700 m, 2.VIII.65, J. Sedlacek Collector, Bishop Mus. ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 3.3 mm. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 70). Mandible with three apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth subangulate; 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 165). Tergal process with shallow, longitudinally elliptical and lateral pair of depression, 0.4 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with very long and thin setae on anterior area, inner margin of depression slightly higher then median region of tergite II; each depression with large tubercle on its anterior area, conical in longitudinal section, high, entirely laterad, with broad pit on top, with small few setae laterad. Hypopygium (Figure 256) with median stalk evenly

narrow, 1.0 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin convex medially. Genitalia (Figures

484-488). Apex of paramere with subangled projection on dorsal view. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex higher than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing abruptly apicad; dorsal surface projected in lateral view; apical lobe very long, apex with long, slightly bifurcated and crenulated projection on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region subangled and crenulated. Genital ring straight, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The word sanda means perfume in Tok Pisin.