Dissomphalus save, 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 : 540

publication ID

1243-4442

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5493804

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887BF-DE79-7A0C-FF0A-0B7638F4FAD1

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scientific name

Dissomphalus save
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus save n. sp.

Figures 71, 166, 257, 489-491

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. New Guinea, NE, Wau, Nami Ck, 1750 m, 17.VIII.1965, J. Sedlacek, Malaise Trap, Bishop ( BPBM). Paratypes. Papua New Guinea. 2♂ New Guinea, NE, Morobe District, Mt. Missim, 1900m, 10-15. V.1967, G. A. Samuelson Collector, Bishop Museum ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 3.3 mm. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous; metasoma castaneous. Head (Figure 71). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth subangulate, outlined by carina; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and straight in profile. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin ecarinate, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas ecarinate. Metasoma (Figure 166). Tergal process absent. Hypopygium (Figure 257) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.0 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight with median concavity. Genitalia (Figures 489-491). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing progressively apicad. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex, deeply bifurcated on median region; apical region with ventral sheet crenulated, dorsal sheet smooth. Genital ring slightly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition save means science in Tok Pisin.

BPBM

Bishop Museum

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Dissomphalus

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