Dissomphalus kuara Colombo & Azevedo

Colombo, Wesley D. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2016, Review of Dissomphalus Ashmead, 1893 (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Espíri- to Santo, Brazil, with description of twenty-one new species, Zootaxa 4143 (1), pp. 1-84 : 40-41

Dissomphalus kuara Colombo & Azevedo , sp. nov.

( Figs 10 , 145, 146 )

Description. Male. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous or black. Mandible with two apical teeth; median clypeal lobe trapezoidal, median tooth weakly triangular; frons coriaceous, punctate. Pronotal disc coriaceous. T2 without tergal process. Posterior hypopygeal margin straight. Genitalia: paramere wide in dorsal view, apex rounded, size equal to basiparamere; cuspis wide; digitus sickle-shaped; aedeagal ventral ramus smaller than dorsal body, base wide, apex inverted, rounded, laminar; aedeagal dorsal body with two pairs apical lobes, outer pair with apex ill defined, inner pair very membranous; basal process ill defined; basal bar wide, Y-shaped; apodeme extending beyond genital ring.

Female unknown.

Remarks. This species is allocated in amplus species-group by having the tergal process absent. This species not is similar other of species-group. This species is mainly different because has the aedeagal ventral ramus with apex inverted and rounded; aedeagal dorsal body with apex ill-defined and aedeagal dorsal body with basal bar in Y-shaped.

Material examined. Types : Holotype ♂, BRAZIL, E[spírito] S[anto]: Santa Teresa , Estação Biológica [de] Santa Lúcia, 15–19.X.2010, [armadilha] Malaise, M.T. Tavares & equipe col. ( UFES) . Paratypes: 4♂, Santa Teresa , Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, 15–19.X.2010, 1♂, 13–17.2008, [armadilha] Malaise, M.T. Tavares & equipe col. ( UFES) ; 8♂, Santa Maria de Jetibá , Fazenda Clarindo Kruguer, 20º04’S 40º44’W, 29.XI–06.XII.2002, armadilha Malaise, M. Tavares & C. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. ( UFES) ; 1♂, Santa Maria de Jetibá , Fazenda Paulo Seick, 20º02’S 40º42’W, 29.XI–06.XII.2002, armadilha Malaise, Tavares & Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. ( UFES) ; 3♂, S[anta] Leopoldina, Alto Rio das Farinhas, 20º08’S 40º36’W, 14–24.V.2008, arm[adilha] Malaise, [C.] Waichert & [K.] Furieri col. (UFES); 22♂, Alfredo Chaves , Picadão, 20º27’S 40º42’W, 08–15.X.2007, arm[adilha] Malaise, C.O. Azevedo & eq[uipe] col. ( UFES) ; 1♂, Ibitirama , Parque Nacional do Caparaó , 20º29’S 41º43’W, 10– 13. III.2006, R. Kawada col. ( UFES) ; 1♂, Ibitirama , Parq [ue] Nac [ional do] Caparaó , 20º29’S 41º43’W, 06– 13.III.2013, [armadilha] Malaise, C.O. Azevedo & F.B. Fraga col. ( UFES) .

Etymology. The epithet kuara refers to sun in Tupi-Guarani.

Distribution. Brazil (Espírito Santo).

Figures

FIGURES 8–13. Dissomphalus spp., ♂, head, dorsal view. 8. D. rosangelae sp. nov. 9. D. clovisi sp. nov. 10. D. kuara sp. nov. 11. D. pyata sp. nov. 12. D. miriamae sp. nov. 13. D. amana sp. nov. Scale bar = 100 µm.

FIGURES 143–149. Dissomphalus spp., ♂, genitalia. 143, 144. D. clovisi sp. nov. 143. Aedeagus, dorsal view. 144. Aedeagus, ventral view. 145, 146. D. kuara sp. nov. 145. Aedeagus, dorsal view. 146. Aedeagus, ventral view. 147–149. D. pyata sp. nov. 147. Aedeagus, dorsal view. 148. Aedeagus, ventral view. 149. Aedeagal dorsal body, dorsal view.