Dissomphalus
Creators: name: Colombo, Wesley D.
name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Dissomphalus

description: Dissomphalus h-ramus Redighieri & Azevedo, 2004
Dissomphalus h-ramus Redighieri & Azevedo, 2004: 330 (♂, holotype from Espírito Santo, UFES, figs 1–3); 2006: 307. Dissomphalus truncatus: Redighieri & Azevedo 2004: 330, part.
Diagnosis. Male. Black. Mandible bidentate. Median clypeal lobe trapezoidal. Frons strongly coriaceous, very punctate. T2 with pair of small, elliptical sublateral depressions, wider than long, each depression with a prominent and flat-topped tubercle, pit on top, bearing tuft of setae directed slightly downward and inward. Posterior hypopygeal margin concave. Genitalia: paramere with acute apex, slightly arched inward, ventral and dorsal margin straight; ventral ramus slightly longer than dorsal body, laminar, surface horizontal, with two pairs of apical arms, outer pair rounded apex and acute inner projection below apex, inner pair short; dorsal body with two pairs apical lobes, outer pair tubular,sinuous, joined by calyx-shaped connection below, dorsal margin serrated apically, apex strongly arched downward, ventral margin with one or two sharpened teeth, apical one longer; apodeme extending beyond elliptical genital ring. Female unknown.
Variations. Ventral margin of the aedeagal dorsal body with two teeth, three teeth or three and two teeth the same genitalia.
Remarks. Sixty-two specimens of D. h-ramus were registered from Espírito Santo (Redighieri & Azevedo 2004; 2006), and we add more 67 new ones. Additionally, we considered as D. h-ramus one specimen previously identified as D. truncatus by Redighieri & Azevedo (2004).
Material examined. Types: Holotype ♂, BRAZIL, Espírito Santo: Santa Teresa (Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia), 27.IX.2001, varredura C.O. Azevedo & R. Kawada col. (UFES). Paratypes: 4♂, same locality of holotype, 23.II–27.IX.2001, varredura C.O. Azevedo & R. Kawada col. (UFES). Material revised: 37♂, Santa Teresa, Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, 19º58’S 40º32’W, 06.IV.23 –VII.2001, armadilha Malaise, C.O. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. (MZSP), 1♂, varredura, 18♂, [armadilha] Malaise, C.O. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 1♂, Santa Teresa, Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, 30.I–10.XII.2001, varredura C.O. Azevedo & R. Kawada col. (UFES). New material examined: BRAZIL, Espírito Santo: 1♂, S[anta] Teresa, Est [ação] Biol [ógica de] Santa Lúcia, 19°58’S 40°32’W, 11.IX.2003, varredura, [M.T.] Tavares, [C.O.] Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 7♂, Estação Biológica [de] Santa Lúcia, 13–17.X.2008. (UFES); 1♂, Estação Biológica [de] Santa Lúcia, 09–13.V.2006, armadilha Malaise, M. Tavares, C. Azevedo & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 1♂, 15–19.X.2010, armadilha Malaise, M.T. Tavares & equipe col. (UFES); 2♂, 30.VII–04.VIII.2005, armadilha Malaise, M. Tavares, C. Azevedo & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 1♂, 17–23.X.2011, [armadilha] Malaise, Tavares, M.T. & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 1♂, 09–13.V.2006, [armadilha] Malaise, Tavares, M.T., Oliveira {Azevedo}, C.O. eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 1♂, 10.X.2002, varredura, Tavares, M.T., Oliveira {Azevedo}, C.O. & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 1♂, 17–23.X.2011, [armadilha] Malaise, Tavares, M.T. & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 23♂, Santa Maria de Jetibá, Fazenda Clarindo Krüger, 20º04’S 40º44’O, 29.XI–13.XII.2002, armadilha Malaise, [M.T.] Tavares, [C.O.] Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 9♂, Santa Maria de Jetibá, Faz [enda] Paulo Seick, 20º04’S 40º41’O, 29.XI–13.XII.2002, armadilha Malaise, M.T. Tavares, C.O. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 6♂, S[anta] Leopoldina, Alto Rio das Farinhas, 20°08S 40º36’W, 14–24.V.2008, arm[adilha] Malaise, [C.] Waichert & [K.] Furieri col. (UFES); 3♂, Santa Leopoldina, Bragança, 20º31’S 41º05’W, 8–15.X.2012, [armadilha] Malaise, C.O. Azevedo & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 1♂, Domingos Martins, Pico do Eldorado, 20º22’S 40º39’W, 3–10.XII.2004, 1♂, 26.XI–3.XII.2004, [armadilha] Malaise, [M.T.] Tavares & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 2♂, Alfredo Chaves, Picadão, mata, 20º27’S 40º42’W, 8–15.X.2007, arm[adilha] Malaise, C.O. Azevedo & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 4♂, Divino de São Lourenço, Parque Nacional Caparaó, 20º24’S 41º47’W, 15–22.III.2013, [armadilha] Malaise, C.O. Azevedo & F.B. Fraga col. (UFES).
Distribution. Brazil (Bahia, Espírito Santo, Paraná and Santa Catarina).
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 1-84 in Zootaxa 4143 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4143.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/260759