Dissomphalus elisae Brito & Azevedo, 2024

De Brito, Chirlei D. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2024, Revision of the punctatus species-group of Dissomphalus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), Zootaxa 5536 (3), pp. 389-431 : 409

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.3.2
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scientific name	Dissomphalus elisae Brito & Azevedo
status	sp. nov.

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Dissomphalus elisae Brito & Azevedo , sp. nov.

( Figs 1C View FIGURE 1 , 3H View FIGURE 3 )

Diagnosis. This species is easily recognized by having the tergal process with tuft of setae, the harpe more than twice longer than gonostipes, the basal cover plate very narrow and incurved medially, the digitus entirely wide and more sclerotized than the other parts.

Description. Head. Mandible with three distal teeth. Median clypeal lobe trapezoidal, with one angulate short tooth; median clypeal carina low in profile, incomplete apically, straight in profile or nearly so. Frons strongly coriaceous, punctures large and dense. Vertex crest straight or nearly so. Dorsal pronotal area with anterior margin coarse. Tergal process submedian, consisting of tuft with few setae, without depression. Genitalia. Harpe entirely wide, apical margin truncate and abaxial margin not projected; gonostipes shorter than harpe, ventral margin not excavated until outer margin of basivolsella; digitus long, basidorsal corner poorly projected; basivolsella without protuberance, without spines; aedeagal ventral valve with apex anterior to apex of dorsal one, wide, abruptly narrowing apicad; inner margin outcurved; outer margin slightly sinuous, curved laterad; aedeagal dorsal valve narrow, with pair of apical lobe; outer lobe short, narrow, apical margin acute and posterad; apex of inner median filament anterior to apex of lobe, directed posterad; basal cover plate entirely narrow, posterior margin completely incurved; apodeme extending beyond genital ring.

Material examined. Holotype, 1♂: BRAZIL, Pará, Juruti, Propriedade Barroso , 28.X.2007, arm. Malaise, O. T. Silveira & equipe col. ( MPEG) . Paratype: BRAZIL, Pará, 1♂, Vitória do Xingu, Rio Xingu, Igarapé Di Maria , 13–17.XI.2007, arm. Malaise, O. T. Silveira e equipe col. ( MPEG) .

Distribution. Brazil (Pará).

Etymology. This species is named after the physicist Elisa Frota Pessoa. Emeritus researcher at the Brazilian Center for Physics Research (CBPF).

Remarks. It is not similar to any other of this group.