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 tisa
n. sp.
Figures 85, 179, 270, 532-533
TYPE MATERIAL
—
Holotype
,
♂
,
Indonesia
.
New
Guinea,
Neth
,
Cyclops Mts
,
Ifar
,
300m
,
21.VI.1959
,
T
.
C. Maa
,
Coll
,
Bishop Museum
(
BPBM
).
DESCRIPTION
— MALE: Body length
1.9 mm
. Head dark castaneous; mesosoma and metasoma castaneous. Head (Figure 85). Mandible with three apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe ill-defined; median tooth rounded; median carina distinctly incomplete apically and convex 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 179). Tergal process absent. Hypopygium (Figure 270) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.3 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight or nearly so and with median elevation. Genitalia (Figures 532-533). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, wider medially, narrowing progressively apicad; apex with small and digitiform projection on ventral region. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex lower than aedeagal dorsal body apex; apical region subquadrate with digitiform inner projections. Genital ring slightly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.
FEMALE: Unknown.
ETYMOLOGY
— The noun in apposition
tisa
means teacher in Tok Pisin.