Dissomphalus cacirus 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 : 44

Dissomphalus cacirus Colombo & Azevedo , sp. nov.

( Figs 15 , 32 , 158, 159 )

Description. Male. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous. Head. Mandible with two apical teeth; median clypeal lobe subtrapezoidal, median tooth weakly rounded; Frons weakly coriaceous, weakly punctate; vertex rounded in dorsal view. Pronotal disc coriaceous. T2 without depressions, well-defined side pits, circularshaped, higher edges, tubercle below surface of tergite, many setae at apex. Posterior hypopygeal margin weakly concave. Genitalia: paramere wide in dorsal view, curved in ventral view, apex rounded, slightly arched, base with wide projection, larger than to basiparamere; basivolsella wide; cuspis wide; digitus short; aedeagal ventral ramus smaller than dorsal body, base narrow, rounded, apex narrow, weakly rounded, laminar; aedeagal dorsal body with one pair of apical lobes, apex rounded, inner pair weakly membranous; basal process ill defined; apodeme not extending beyond genital ring. Female unknown.

Remarks. This species is allocated in secretus species-group by having the tergal process with lateral depressions or not, with well-defined side pits, circular-shaped, higher edges, with a tubercle below the surface of tergite, many setae at the apex, with bristles on the edge of the depressions or not. This species not is similar other of species-group. This species is mainly different because has the genitalia with digitus short and aedeagal dorsal body with one pair of apical lobes.

Material examined. Types: Holotype Ƌ, BRAZIL, Espírito Santo: Santa Maria de Jetibá, Fazenda Clarindo Kruguer, 20º04’S 40º44’W, 06–13.XII.2002, armadilha Malaise, Tavares & Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. ( UFES) . Paratypes: 1Ƌ, Santa Maria de Jetibá, Fazenda Clarindo Kruguer, 20º04’S 40º44’W, 06–13.XII.2002, armadilha Malaise, Tavares & Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. (UFES).

Etymology. The epithet cacirus refers the wasp in Tupi-Guarani.

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 158 – 164. Dissomphalus spp., Ƌ, genitalia. 158, 159. D. cacirus sp. nov. 158. Aedeagus, dorsal view. 159. Aedeagus, ventral view. 160 – 162. D. mirim sp. nov. 160. Aedeagus, dorsal view. 161. Aedeagus, ventral view. 162. Aedeagal dorsal body, dorsal view. 163, 164. D. secretus sp. nov. 163. Aedeagus, dorsal view. 164. Aedeagus, ventral view.