Dissomphalus gigantus Azevedo 1999
Creators: name: Colombo, Wesley D.
name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Dissomphalus
Dissomphalus gigantus

description: Dissomphalus gigantus Azevedo, 1999
(Figs 87, 88)
Dissomphalus gigantus Azevedo, 1999a: 341 (♂, holotype from Paraná, DZUP, figs 75–81, 182, 183); Redighieri & Azevedo, 2006: 305.
Dissomphalus vallensis: Redighieri & Azevedo 2004: 329 –330, part.
Diagnosis. Black. Mandible with two apical teeth. Median clypeal lobe subtrapezoidal. Front weakly coriaceous. Vertex slightly convex. T2 with elliptical median depression, with pair setose tubercles, far from each other more than own diameter, slightly directed toward each other. Genitalia: paramere wide with apex rounded; cuspis elongate; aedeagal ventral ramus shorter than dorsal body, narrowing slightly from base to apex, inner surface apex conspicuously setose; aedeagal dorsal body with two pairs apical lobes, both laminar, surface vertical and much close together outer lobe with apex arched bidentate, inner pair membranous and setose, wide in lateral view. Female unknown.
Remarks. Eleven specimens of D. gigantus were registered from Espírito Santo (Redighieri & Azevedo, 2006), and we add more 156 new ones. Additionally, we reidentified two specimens previously identified as D. vallensis by Redighieri & Azevedo (2004).
Material examined. Types: Holotype ♂, BRAZIL, Paraná, Sao Jose dos Pinhais, Serra do Mar, Br 277, km 54; 15.XII.1986; Malaise trap; Survey Profaupar (DZUP). Material revised: 2♂, BRAZIL, Espírito Santo: Santa Teresa (Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia), 28.III–10.XII.2001, varredura C.O. Azevedo & R. Kawada col. (UFES); 10♂, Santa Teresa, Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, 19º58’S 40º32’W, 06–12.IV.2001, armadilha Malaise, C.O. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. (MZSP), 1♂, varredura, C.O. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. (UFES). New material examined: BRAZIL, Espírito Santo: 4♂, Santa Teresa, Estação Biológica [de] Santa Lúcia, [19º58’S 40º32’W], 13.X.2008 – 09.XI.2009, [armadilha] Malaise, M.T. Tavares, C. Azevedo & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 84♂, 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); 46♂, Santa Maria de Jetibá, Fazenda Paulo Seick, 20º02’S, 40º41’O, 29.XI–13.XII.2002, Armadilha Malaise, [M.T.] Tavares, [C.O.] Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 2♂, S[anta] Leopoldina, Alto Rio das Farinhas, 20º08’S 40º36’W, 14–24.V.2008, arm[adilha] Malaise, [C.] Waichert & [K.] Furieri col. (UFES); 1♂, Santa Leopoldina, Bragança, 20º10’S 40º34’W, 8–15.X.2012, arm[adilha] Malaise, Azevedo, C.O. & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 19♂, Domingos Martins, Pico do Eldorado, 20º22’S 40º39’W, 26.XI– 10.XII.2004, [armadilha] Malaise, [M.T.] Tavares & eq[uipe] col. (UFES).
Distribution. Surinam and Brazil (Amapá, Amazonas, Alagoas, Bahia, Distrito Federal, Espírito Santo, São Paulo, 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 21-22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4143.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/260759