Dissomphalus bratasusa, 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 : 483-484

publication ID

1243-4442

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887BF-DE00-7A74-FF2C-0F4838B9FC7C

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Felipe

scientific name

Dissomphalus bratasusa
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus bratasusa n. sp.

Figures 16, 113, 206, 332-335

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.759269, 145.2356), 1700m, 02-03/11/2012, leg Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 1, understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW1700A-09/16-d09, P2176-8781 ( MNHN). Paratypes. Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm, understorey, Malaise, 1♂

(-5.720903, 145.2715), 1200m, 25-26/10/2012, leg Philip, Alois, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 3, MAL-MW1200C-01/16-

d01, P1810-11292 (MNHN); (-5.759269, 145.2356), 1700m, leg Valeba, Tulei, Novotny, Leponce, 1♂ 03-04/11/2012, Plot 4, MAL-MW1700D-10/16-d10, P2225-8778 (MNHN); 1♂ 09-10/11/2012, Plot 1, MAL-MW1700A-16/16-d16, P2183-8801 (MNHN).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.7-4.3 mm. Head black; mesosoma and metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 16). Mandible with three apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth subangulate or truncate, outlined by carina; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and straight in profile. Frons weakly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin ecarinate, weakly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas ecarinate. Metasoma (Figure 113). Tergal process with very shallow, subcircular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.47 x as long as tergite II, parallel, with small and thin setae on anterior and posterior areas; each depression with small tubercle on its inner area, conical in longitudinal section, low, entirely dorsad, with broad pit on top, with small few setae dorsad. Hypopygium (Figure 206) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.4 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight or nearly so and excavated medially. Genitalia (Figure 332-335). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, with hand-shaped progression on outer lobe, wider medially, narrowing progressively apicad; apex with small, triangular and crenulated projection on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex higher than aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region rounded, broad and crenulated, dorsal surface of apex keel-shaped. Genital ring slightly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition bratasusa means siblings in Tok Pisin.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Dissomphalus

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