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 mambu
n. sp.
Figures 44, 140, 232, 417-421
TYPE MATERIAL
—
Holotype
,
♂
,
Papua New Guinea
. Province
Madang
, Wanang 3 station (
-5.22767
,
145.0797
),
175m
,
21-22/09/2012
, leg Basset, Plot 1, understorey; Malaise - MAL-WAN01-D15, P15-2029 (
MNHN
).
Paratypes
.
Indonesia
.
1♂
New
Guinea
, SE Mamai Pltn, E. of Port Glasgow,
150m
,
13.II.1965
,
R
. Straatman, Ligth Trap, Bishop (
BPBM
);
Papua New Guinea
.
1♂
Province
Madang
, Wanang (
-5.22767
,
145.0797
),
175m
,
22-23/09/2012
, coll. by Basset, understorey, FIT-WAN 2286(
MNHN
).
DESCRIPTION
— MALE: Body length
1.9-2.4 mm
. Head and mesosoma dark castaneous; metasoma castaneous or dark castaneous. Head (Figure 44). Mandible with three apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth rounded; median carina complete 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 partly carinate. Metasoma (Figure 232). Tergal process absent. Hypopygium (Figure 232) with lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin weakly sinuous. Genitalia (Figures 417-421). Basal margin of paramere with rounded projection. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing abruptly apicad; apex with long and trilobed projection on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region with digitiform projections. Genital ring slightly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.
FEMALE: Unknown.
ETYMOLOGY
— The noun in apposition
mambu
means bamboo in Tok Pisin.