Dissomphalus switbiskit, 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 : 548-551

publication ID

1243-4442

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Dissomphalus switbiskit
status

sp. nov.

Dissomphalus switbiskit n. sp.

Figures 80, 174, 265, 517-519

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. New Guinea: NE, Morobe District, Mt. Kaindi, N. Peak, 2350 m, 1-14.IX.66, G. A. Samuelson Collector, Bishop Museum ( BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.2 mm. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous; metasoma castaneous. Head (Figure 80). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe ill-defined; median tooth rounded; median carina absent. Frons weakly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin ecarinate, weakly coriaceous. Meta-

FIGURES 516-527

Male genitalia. 516, D.susu n. sp.,aedeagus in lateral view,a,dorsal body,b, ventral ramus. 517-519, D.switbiskit n. sp. 517, dorsal view. 518, ventral view. 519, paramere in lateral view. 520-522, D. switmuli n. sp. 520, dorsal view. 521, ventral view. 522, apex of aedeagal dorsal body in ventral view. 523-524, D.tapiok n. sp. 523, dorsal view. 524, ventral view. 525-527, D. taun n. sp. 525, dorsal view. 526, ventral view. 527, aedeagus in lateral view, a, dorsal body, b, ventral ramus. Scale bars 125 µm, except 522 - 62 µm.

FIGURES 528-539

Male genitalia. 528, D.taun n. sp., apex of aedeagal dorsal body in ventral view. 529-531, D.ting n. sp. 529, dorsal view. 530, ventral view. 531, apex of aedeagal ventral ramus in latero-ventral view. 532-533, D. tisa n. sp. 532, dorsal view. 533, ventral view. 534-535, D. toktok n. sp. 534, dorsal view. 535, ventral view. 536-537, D.tudak n. sp. 536, dorsal view. 537, ventral view. 538-539, D.tumbuna n. sp. 538, dorsal view. 539, ventral view.Scale bars 125 µm, except 531 - 62 µm.

pectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas ecarinate. Metasoma (Figure 174). Tergal process with deep, subcircular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.66 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with thin, small and long setae on lateral area; each depression with large tubercle on its center, evenly wide in longitudinal section, very low, entirely dorsad, with broad pit on top, with small tuft of setae dorsad. Hypopygium (Figure 265) with median stalk 1.16 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin strongly concave. Genitalia (Figures 517-519). Basiparamere small. Paramere with ventral margin excavated. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex higher than parameral apex, evenly wide. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex lower than aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region rounded, broad and smooth. Digitus very large and long. Genital ring straight, each half sinuous in dorsalview.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition switbiskit means cookie in Tok Pisin.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Bethylidae

Genus

Dissomphalus

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