Dissomphalus caparao 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 : 50-51

Dissomphalus caparao Colombo & Azevedo , sp. nov.

( Figs 18 , 35 , 188, 189 )

Description. Male. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous. Mandible with three apical teeth; median clypeal lobe trapezoidal, median tooth triangular; frons coriaceous weakly punctate. Pronotal disc weakly coriaceous. T2 with lateral depressions, large, elliptical, shallow, few bristles on the edge, tubercle absent. Posterior hypopygeal margin straight. Genitalia: paramere small in dorsal view, apex rounded, slightly arched, smaller than to basiparamere; cuspis wide, rounded apex; digitus wide; aedeagal ventral ramus smaller than dorsal body, small base, rounded, apex narrow, weakly rounded, laminar; dorsal body with two pairs apical lobes, narrow apex, inner pair very serrated; basal process wide; apodeme not extending beyond genital ring. Female unknown.

Remarks. This species not have enough characteristics for be included in a species-group. This species not is similar other of species-group. This species has the genitalia similar to Dissomphalus taiabocu sp. nov. However, the paramere of D. caparao sp. nov. is small, in dorsal view; the aedeagal dorsal body without basal process with two projections and apodeme not extending beyond genital ring, whereas D. taiabocu sp. nov. the paramere is wide in dorsal view, the aedeagal dorsal body with basal process with two projections and apodeme extending beyond genital ring.

Material examined. Types : Holotype Ƌ, BRAZIL, E[spírito] S[anto]: Divino de São Lourenço , Parq [ue] Nac [ional do] Caparaó , 20º24’S 41º47’W, 15-22.III.2013, [armadilha] Malaise, 1500m, C.O. Azevedo & F.B. Fraga col. ( UFES) . Paratypes: 2Ƌ, Divino de São Lourenço , Parq [ue] Nac [ional do] Caparaó , 20º24’S 41º47’W, 15–22.III.2013, [armadilha] Malaise, 1500m, C.O. Azevedo & F.B. Fraga col. ( UFES) .

Etymology. The epithet caparao refers to Serra do Caparaó .

Distribution. Brazil (Espírito Santo).

Figures

FIGURES 14 – 19. Dissomphalus spp., Ƌ, head, dorsal view. 14. D. potyra sp. nov. 15. D. cacirus sp. nov. 16. D. mirim sp. nov. 17. D. secretus sp. nov. 18. D. caparao sp. nov. 19. D. capixaba sp. nov. Scale bar = 100 µm.

FIGURES 32 – 37. Dissomphalus spp., Ƌ. 32. D. cacirus sp. nov. T 2, dorsal view. 33. D. mirim sp. nov. T 2, latero-dorsal view. 34. D. secretus sp. nov. T 2, dorsal view. 35. D. caparao sp. nov. T 2, dorsal view. 36. D. capixaba sp. nov. T 2, dorsal view. 37. D. ibirapitanga sp. nov. T 2, porter-dorsal view. Scale bar = 100 µm.

FIGURES 183 – 190. Dissomphalus spp., Ƌ, genitalia. 183 – 185. D. peculiaris. 183. Aedeagus, dorsal view. 184. Aedeagus, ventral view. 185. Paramere, lateral view. 186, 187. D. trilobatus. 186. Aedeagus, dorsal view. 187. Aedeagus, ventral view. 188, 189. D. caparao sp. nov. 188. Aedeagus, dorsal view. 189. Aedeagus, ventral view. 190. D. capixaba sp. nov. 190. Aedeagus, dorsal view.