Figures 1, 97, 191, 281-284

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. New Guinea, NE, Morobe District, Mt. Missim, 1300m, 15-21. XII.1966, G.A. Samuelson Collector, Bishop Museum (BPBM). Paratypes. Papua New Guinea. 1♂ Province Madang, Mount Wilhelm (-5.732698, 145.2556), 700m, 08-09/11/2012, leg Keltim, Uma, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 2, understorey, Malaise - MAL-MW0700B-15/16-d15, P1418-11285 (MNHN); 1♂ (NE) Wau, Morobe Distr, 1200m, 17.XII.1961, L.W. Quate Collector (BPBM); 1♂ NE, Morobe Distr, Zenag to Gurakor, 760m, 16.VIII.1978, J.L. Gressitt & Wita Colls, Bishop Museum (BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 3.0-4.0 mm. Head black; mesosoma dark castaneous or black; metasoma castaneous. Head (Figure 1). 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, weakly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas partly carinate. Metasoma (Figure 97). Tergal process with shallow, subcircular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.4 x as long as tergite II, diverging posterad, with small and thin setae on anterior area; each depression with large tubercle on its center, evenly wide in longitudinal section, low, entirely dorsad, with broad pit on top, with small few setae dorsad. Hypopygium (Figure 191) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.2 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight or nearly so with median elevation. Genitalia (Figures 281-284). Aedeagal dorsal body with apex as high as parameral apex, wider medially, narrowin progressively apicad, with hand-shaped progression on outer lobe. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex as high as aedeagal dorsal body apex, slightly bifurcated; apical region with digitiform projections. Genital ring slightly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition abababa means bubble gum in Tok Pisin.