Dissomphalus linearis Azevedo, 1999

Colombo, Wesley D., Alencar, Isabel D. C. C., Limeira-De-Oliveira, Francisco & Azevedo, Celso O., 2018, New species and records of Dissomphalus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Cerrado, Caatinga and relicts of the Atlantic Forest from northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 4462 (1), pp. 1-40 : 18

Dissomphalus linearis Azevedo, 1999

Dissomphalus linearis Azevedo, 1999a: 337 –338 (♂, holotype from Brazil).

Diagnosis. Male. Body dark castaneous, head and mesosoma darker. Mandible with two apical teeth. Median clypeal lobe tridentate. Frons coriaceous, punctures shallow, large. Frontal impression short. Vertex straight. Tergal process vertical, depression large, not so deep, width 0.4 × tergite width, small emargination in upper margin forming two convex lobes, their lateral margins parallel, dentiform process inward above level of tuft, depression broadly in touch posterior margin T1, two linear and horizontal lateral hairy tufts, slightly directed toward each other, far from each other by their lengths, T2 with additional pair of light spots. Hypopygeal slender stalk, widening apicad, posterior margin slightly concave. Genitalia: paramere wide, cuspis long, much arched, apex truncate; aedeagal ventral ramus smaller than dorsal body, convergent apicad, laminar, wide, inclined, surface horizontal, apex sharpened, inner margin somewhat concave medially; aedeagal dorsal body with two pairs apical lobes, outer pair laminar, vertical, outer surface convex, wide with rounded apex in lateral view; inner pair stout, hairy, membranous. Female unknown.

Variations. In this series the specimens are quite like those previously studied.

Remarks. This species was previously known from Brazil (Amazonas, Pará) ( Azevedo 1999a). Now is recorded for the first time from Ceará, Piauí and Maranhão.

Material examined. BRAZIL, CE[ará], 1♂ Ubajara , PN Ubajara, Cachoeira do Cafundó, 03°50'13''S 40°54'35''W, 16–31.XII.2012, Armadilha Malaise, JS Pinto Junior, F Limeira-de-Oliveira cols. ( CZMA) ; 1♂ 01– 15.I.2013 (CZMA); PI[auí], 1♂ Caracol, PN Serra das Confusões, Riacho dos Bois, 2014, Armadilha suspensa (CZMA); 3♂ 09°13'11.9''S 43°29'26.2''W, 575m, 01.VIII–30.XI.2013, Armadilha Malaise, JA Rafael, F Limeirade-Oliveira, TTA Silva cols. (CZMA); MA[ranhão], 1♂ Mirador , Parque Estadual do Mirador , Base da Geraldina, 416m, 06°37'48''S 45°52'49''W, Armadilha de Malaise, 20–30.XI.2013, F Limeira-de-Oliveira, LLM Santos, TL Rocha cols. ( CZMA) .