Synopsis of the Neotropical Dissomphalus (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) Author Azevedo, C. O. text Zootaxa 2003 2003-10-24 338 1 1 74 https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.338.1.1 journal article 5465 10.11646/zootaxa.338.1.1 e0112ec9-2b66-4726-88b6-5db0df9e8b43 1175­5334 5019741 7146D5AC-DE68-4CB7-B004-3B85A46C69B4 Dissomphalus confusus Ashmead, 1894 ( Figs. 126–130 ) Dissomphalus confusus Ashmead 1894: 193 , 194–195, 1895: 786, Dalla Torre 1898: 558 , Kieffer 1908: 36 , 1914b: 496 , 501–502, Evans 1964: 46 . Diagnosis. — Male. Length 1.92 mm . Mandible tetradentate. Clypeus with three small teeth, median carina high and angled in profile. Frons weakly coriaceous, with small punctures. Vertex slightly convex, with rounded corners. Notauli ill­defined and present only anteriorly. Metasomal tergite II with pair of small tufts of hairs, which lie in an inconspicuous depression ( Fig. 126 ). Genitalia ( Fig. 127–128 ): paramere with apical half as an elongate and sharpened expansion, basal half wide, with margins convex ( Fig. 129 ); volsella with digitus thin; aedeagus with ventral ramus much shorter than dorsal body, laminar, surface subhorizontal, base very wide, narrowing up to the acute apex, inner margin parallel, outer margin very converging; dorsal body with two pairs of apical lobes ( Fig. 130 ), outer pair laminar, outer surface convex, apex thin and directed downward, base wide in lateral view, inner pair fully attached to outer pair, stout, membranous, short, surface hairy; apodeme extending beyond the subtriangular genital ring. Material examined. — HOLOTYPE : male, SAINT VINCENT , Leeward side, 52, H. H. Smith col. ( USNM #2496 ). Comments. — This species is similar to D. politus in the genitalia.