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Dissomphalus Ashmead 1893

Description

Genus Dissomphalus Ashmead, 1893

Dissomphalus Ashmead, 1893: 41 –42. Type-species: Dissomphalus xanthopus Ashmead, by original designation.

Ecitopria Wasmann, 1899: 55–56, 127. Type-species: Ecitopria crassicornis Wasmann, by monotypy. Synonymized by Evans, 1955: 290.

Psilobethylus Kieffer in Kieffer & Marshall, 1906: 461 –462. Type-species: Psilobethylus luteus Kieffer, by monotypy. Synonymized by Terayama, 1995: 888.

Thaumatepyris Kieffer, 1910a: 47. Type-species: Thaumatepyris punctatus Kieffer, by monotypy. Synonymized by Evans, 1964: 41.

Glenobethylus Kieffer, 1910a: 50. Type-species: Glenobethylus montanus Kieffer, by monotypy. Synonymized by Evans, 1964: 41.

Parisobrachium Kieffer, 1914b: 237, 424. Type-species: Rhabdepyris? albipes Kieffer, by monotypy. Synonymized by Azevedo, 2008: 784.

Parecitopria Oglobin, 1930: 15. Type-species: Parecitopria azarai Oglobin, by monotypy. Synonimized by Evans, 1964: 41.

Diagnosis. Male. Body robust. Clypeus prominent, median lobe sometimes ill-defined. Metasoma relatively wide and short; second tergo sometimes with tergal process (depressions, pits, tufts of setae, tubercles). Hypopygium with three stalks. Genitalia wide; paramere simple or bilobate; aedeagus complex, composed by ventral ramus and dorsal body. Female. Head longer than wide. Eye small, with from one to about 25 facets. Mesonotum short, transverse, posterior margin gently convex at broad junction with propodeum; anterior margin of propodeum not embracing sides of mesonotum to any appreciable extent. Genitalia with aedeagus divided into dorsal body and ventral ramus.

Notes

Published as part of Azevedo, Celso O., 2017, Review of Dissomphalus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Panama, with key to the Central American species, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 4335 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4335.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010014

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Dissomphalus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ashmead
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Dissomphalus Ashmead, 1893 sec. Azevedo, 2017

References

  • Ashmead, W. H. (1893) Monograph of the North American Proctotrypidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 45, 1 - 472. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.45.1
  • Wasmann, E. (1899) Die psychischen Fahigkeiten der Ameisen. Zoologica, 11 (26), 1 - 133.
  • Evans, H. E. (1955 [" 1954 "]) The North American species of Dissomphalus (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae). Proccedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 56, 287 - 309.
  • Terayama, M. (1995) Three new species of the genus Dissomphalus (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) from Asia. Edaphologia, 54, 9 - 12.
  • Kieffer, J. J. (1910 a [" 1909 "]) Description de nouveaux bethylides (Hymenopteres). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 78, 287 - 348.
  • Evans, H. E. (1964) A synopsis of the American Bethylidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 132, 1 - 222.
  • Kieffer, J. J. (1914 b) Bethylinae. Das Tierreich, 41, 228 - 595.
  • Ogloblin, A. A. (1930) Notes on Bethylidae with the description of two new species from Misiones. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, 3, 15 - 24.