Dissomphalus jaquelineae De Brito & Azevedo 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: De Brito, Chirlei D.
name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Dissomphalus
Dissomphalus jaquelineae

description: Dissomphalus jaquelineae Brito & Azevedo, sp. nov.
(Figs 1C, 4G)
Diagnosis. This species is easily recognized by having the posterior margin of harpe straight, wide with apex truncate basivolsella with a poorly delimited protuberance, digitus with the basiventral part short and inner median filament anterior to the aedeagal dorsal lobes.
Description. Head. Mandible with two distal teeth. Median clypeal lobe subtrapezoidal, with one angulate short tooth; median clypeal carina high in profile, incomplete apically, arched in profile. Frons weakly coriaceous, punctures small and sparse. Vertex crest straight or nearly so. Dorsal pronotal area with anterior margin carinate. Tergal process submedian, with tuft of setae without depression. Posterior hypopygeal margin sinuous. Genitalia. Harpe wide basally, apical margin straight, abaxial margin not projected; gonostipes shorter than harpe, ventral margin not excavated until outer margin of basivolsella; digitus short, basidorsal corner strongly projected; basivolsella with wide, poorly defined protuberance, without spines; aedeagal ventral valve with apex anterior to apex of dorsal one, wide, progressively narrowing apicad; inner margin outcurved; outer margin sinuous, curved laterad; aedeagal dorsal valve robust, with two pairs of apical lobe; outer lobe very long, narrow, apical margin acute, and posterad; apex of inner median filament anterior to apex of lobe, directed posterad; basal cover plate entirely narrow, posterior margin slightly incurved medially; apodeme extending beyond genital ring.
Material examined. Holotype, 1♂: PANAMA, Chiriqui, Res. La Fortuna, Viveno, 14–18.VI.1994, A. R. Gillogly (CNCI). Paratypes: COSTA RICA, Limón, 1♂, 16 km W Guápiles, 400m, IV.1989, Col. Paul Hanson; Puntarenas, 1♂, San Vito, Jardin Bot., Las Cruces, XII.1988, 1200m, Col. P. Hanson (MUCR); PANAMA, Chiriqui, 2♂, Res. La Fortuna, Viveno, 14–18.VI.1994, A. R. Gillogly (CNCI); PERU: [Huanuco, Huanuco, Leoncio Prado], 1♂, Tingo Maria, Monzon Valley, [09°19'09"S], [76°00'18"W], 10.X.1954, E. I. Schlinger & E. S. Ross collectors (CASC).
Distribution. Costa Rica, Panama, Peru.
Etymology. This species is named after the biomedicist Jaqueline Góes de Jesus, who was member of the team that sequenced the first SARS-CoV-2 genomes in Brazil.
Remarks. It is similar to D. penhae sp. nov. by having the harpe wide dorsally, inner median filament anterior to the aedeagal dorsal lobes and aedeagal ventral valve sinuous. However, D. jaquelineae sp. nov. has the aedeagal dorsal valve entirely wide and robust, basivolsella with protuberance and basiventral part of the digitus not sharpened, whereas D. penhae sp. nov. has aedeagal dorsal valve in bottle shape or nearly so, basivolsella without protuberance and basiventral part of the digitus sharpened.
description: Published as part of De Brito, Chirlei D. & Azevedo, Celso O., 2024, Revision of the punctatus species-group of Dissomphalus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), pp. 389-431 in Zootaxa 5536 (3) on page 414, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14239039