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Dissomphalus ananas Mugrabi & Azevedo 2016, n. sp.

  • 1. John T. Huber

Description

Dissomphalus ananas n. sp.

Figures 7, 103, 197, 304-305, 564

TYPE MATERIAL — Holotype, ♂, Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, Wanang 3 station (-5.22767, 145.0797), 175m, 25-26/11/2012, leg Basset, Plot 2, understorey, Malaise - MAL-WAN02-D08, P4923-9045 (MNHN). Paratypes. Papua New Guinea. Province Madang, understorey, 1♂ Mount Wilhelm (-5.721022, 145.2703), 1200m, 25-26/10/2012, leg Philip, Alois, Novotny, Leponce, Plot 2, Malaise - MAL-MW1200B-01/16-d01, P1794-11295 (MNHN); Wanang 3 station (-5.22767, 145.0797), 175m, leg Basset, Malaise, 1♂ 02-03/12/2012, Plot 1, MAL-WAN01-D15, P4914-18147 (MNHN); 1♂ 18-19/11/2012, Plot 3, MAL-WAN03-D01, P4932-9227 (MNHN); 3♂ (-5.732514, 145.2568), 700m, 04-06/11/2012, Coll. by Keltim, Uma, Novotny, Leponce, understorey, FIT-MW700-C-6/8-d11, P1119-1006 (MNHN); 1♂ New Guinea, NE, Karimui, 1080m. 14.VII.1963, M. Sedlacek, Bishop Museum (BPBM).

DESCRIPTION — MALE: Body length 2.7-3.3 mm. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous. Head (Figure 7). Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus with median lobe subtrapezoidal; median tooth rounded, outlined by carina; median carina absent or when present, distinctly incomplete apically and straight in profile. Frons strongly coriaceous. Mesosoma. Pronotal disc with anterior margin carinate, strongly coriaceous. Metapectal-propodeal complex with lateral and posterior areas carinaste. Metasoma (Figure 103). Tergal process with deep, circular and sublateral pair of depression, 0.37 x as long as tergite II, parallel, with small and thin setae on anterior and lateral areas; each depression with small tubercle on its inner area, conical in longitudinal section, low, entirely dorsad, with small pit on top, with small few setae dorsad. Hypopygium (Figure 197) with median stalk evenly narrow, 1.1.0 x as long as hypopygial plate; lateral stalk triangular; posterior margin straight or nearly so. Genitalia (Figures 304-305; 564). Basal margin of paramere with rounded projection. Aedeagal dorsal body with apex lower than parameral apex, evenly wide. Aedeagal ventral ramus with apex lower than aedeagal dorsal body apex, slightly bifurcated on apical region; apical region subangled and smooth. Genital ring slightly produced, each half straight in dorsal view.

FEMALE: Unknown.

ETYMOLOGY — The noun in apposition ananas means pineapple in Tok Pisin.

Notes

Published as part of Mugrabi, Daniele F. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2016, Description of 91 new species of DIssomphalus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) from New Guinea Island and surrounded areas, pp. 451-564 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 209 on page 472

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Biodiversity

Family
Bethylidae
Genus
Dissomphalus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Mugrabi & Azevedo
Species
ananas
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dissomphalus ananas Mugrabi & Azevedo, 2016