Description of 91 new species of DIssomphalus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) from New Guinea Island and surrounded areas
Author
Mugrabi, Daniele F.
John T. Huber
Author
Azevedo, Celso O.
John T. Huber
text
Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
2016
209
451
564
journal article
1243-4442
Dissomphalus opis
n. sp.
Figures 53, 151, 242, 446-450
TYPE MATERIAL
—
Holotype
,
♂
,
Papua New Guinea
.
New Britain
,
Gisiluve
,
Naka
nai Mts.,
1050m
.
July
25.1956,
E. J. Ford Jr. Collector
(
BPBM
).
DESCRIPTION
— MALE: Body length
2.7 mm
. Head, mesosoma and metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 53). Mandible with two apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth angled; median carina complete apically and straight in profile. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin carinate, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas carinate. Metasoma (Figure 151). Tergal process with shallow, longitudinally elliptical and sublateral pair of depression, 0.33 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with long and thick setae on lateral area; each depression with small tubercle on its inner area, conical in longitudinal section, low, entirely anterad, with small pit on top, with very small seta anterad. Hypopygium (Figure 242) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.18 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin strongly concave. Genitalia (Figure 446-450). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, narrower apically; apical lobe small and board; apex with small and hooked projection on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex higher than aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region subangled and smooth with digitiform median projections. Genital ring slightly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.
FEMALE: Unknown.
ETYMOLOGY
— The noun in apposition
opis
means office in Tok Pisin.