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

description: Dissomphalus tupinikim Colombo & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 4, 25, 100–102)
Description. Male. Head and mesosoma black; metasoma dark castaneous. Mandible with two apical teeth; median clypeal lobe trapezoidal, median tooth rounded; frons strongly coriaceous, punctate. Pronotal disc strongly coriaceous. T2 with pair tufts of setae directed backward, lateral, without depression and tubercle. Posterior hypopygeal margin straight. Genitalia: paramere with apex rounded, slightly arched inward, very wide, longer than basiparamere; volsella very wide; aedeagal ventral ramus smaller than dorsal body, laminar, narrow, fork at the base, rounded apex; dorsal body with two pairs apical lobes, outer pair wide and rounded in lateral view, apical and ventral margin with many setae, inner pair membranous; apodeme extending beyond genital ring. Female unknown.
Variations. Paramere slightly; dorsal body with apex weakly rounded.
Remarks. This species is now included in punctatus species-group by having the tergal process with tufts of setae directed backward and tubercles absent. This species has the genitalia similar to those of D. punctatus. However, this species has the median clypeal lobe subtrapezoidal, aedeagal dorsal body with apex short and apical and ventral margins of aedeagal dorsal body with many setae, whereas D. punctatus has the median clypeal lobe trapezoidal, aedeagal dorsal body with apex wide and apical and ventral margins of aedeagal dorsal body without many setae.
Theses species goes to couplet 80 on the key proposed by Redighieri & Azevedo (2006) and should be read as:
80. Apex of outer aedeagal dorsal body with ventral margin serrated, long filament present between pair outer................
........................................................................ D. bahiensis Redighieri & Azevedo - Apex of outer aedeagal dorsal body without ventral margin serrated, long filament absent between pair outer...........80a 80a. Median clypeal lobe subtrapezoidal; aedeagal basal process elongate as filament present........... .. D. punctatus (Kieffer) - Median clypeal lobe trapezoidal; aedeagal basal process elongate as filament absent................. D. tupinikim sp. nov.
Material examined. Types: Holotype ♂, BRAZIL, E[spírito] S[anto]: Alfredo Chaves, Picadão, 20º27’S 40º42’W, 8–15.X.2007, arm[adilha] Malaise, C.O. Azevedo & eq[uipe] col. (UFES). Paratypes: 1♂, Santa Teresa, Est [ação] Biol [ógica de] Santa Lúcia, 31.V.2001, varredura, Azevedo & Kawada col. (UFES); 1♂, Santa Leopoldina, Alto Rio das Farinhas, 20º08’S 40º36’W, 14–24.V.2008, arm[adilha] Malaise, [C.] Waichert & [K.] Furieri col. (UFES); 1♂, Domingos Martins, Pico do Eldorado, 20º22’S 40º39’W, 26.XI–03.XII.2004, [armadilha] Malaise, [M.T.] Tavares & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 2♂, same locality of holotype. 8–15.X.2007, arm[adilha] Malaise, C.O. Azevedo & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 3♂, Ibitirama, Parque Nacional do Caparaó, 20º29’S 41º43’W, 10–14. III.2006, R. Kawada col. (UFES); 2♂, Ibitirama, Parque Nacional do Caparaó, 20º27’S 41º44’W, 16– 23.III.2013, C.O. Azevedo & F.B. Fraga col. (UFES).
Etymology. The epithet tupinikim refers to Tupinikim indigenous of Espírito Santo. Distribution. Brazil (Espírito Santo).
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 27-28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4143.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/260759