Dissomphalus isortus Azevedo 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Azevedo, Celso O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Dissomphalus
Dissomphalus isortus

description: Dissomphalus isortus Brito & Azevedo sp. nov.
(Figs 30, 61, 92, 217–218)
Description. Male. Body length 2.42 mm. Color: head and mesosoma dark castaneous; metasoma castaneous. Head (Fig. 30). Mandible with two distal teeth. Median clypeal lobe subtrapezoidal, with one angulate tooth; median clypeal carina high in profile, incomplete apically, straight in profile or nearly so. Frons weakly coriaceous and punctures small. Vertex crest weakly concave. Pronotal disc weakly coriaceous; anterior margin coarse. Metasoma (Fig. 61). Tergal process lateral, with deep, circular and large depression, with large, high and dorsad tubercle placed on center of depression, pit large, with short and dense tuft of setae. Posterior hypopygeal margin straight or nearly so (Fig. 92). Genitalia (Figs 217–218): paramere with dorsal margin entirely wide; apical margin truncate. Aedeagal ventral ramus as long as dorsal body, wide, progressively narrowing apicad; cross section laminar; surface horizontal; inner margin slightly sinuous; outer margin sinuous; apex long, simple, curved outward; additional inner ramus absent; basal stub short and very narrow. Aedeagal dorsal body with two pairs of apical lobes; outer lobe long, subvertical and narrow, with apical margin rounded and posterad; inner pair stout, membranous and setose. Apodeme extending beyond genital ring.
Variation. Depression of tergal process shallow.
Remarks. This species is easily recognized by having the paramere very wide, the apical lobes of the aedeagal dorsal body conical-shaped, the cuspis very small and the aedeagal ventral ramus wide basally. This species is similar to D. raziogus sp. nov. by having the aedeagal dorsal body narrowing slightly apicad and the apical lobes of the aedeagal dorsal body in conical-shaped. However, this species has the tergal process present, the paramere very wide and the apex of apical lobes of the aedeagal dorsal body dorsad, whereas D. raziogus sp. nov. has the tergal process absent, the paramere not wide and the apex of apical lobes of the aedeagal dorsal body mesad.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, PANAMA, Coclé Pr [ovincia]: El Copé, Par [que] Nac [ional General de División] Omar Torrijos H [errera], 570–670 m.s.n.m., [08º41'56"N, 80º39'17"W], 26–30 sep. 1999, Tr [ampa] Malaise, A. Santos, P. González [col.] (MIUP). Paratypes: 5♂, same data as holotype; Darién Pr [ovincia]: 1♂, P[arque] N[acional] Darién, Pirre, Est [ación] Rancho Frio, 1000 m, [08°00'N, 77°45'W], 21mar–4 ab 2000, Malaise, Cambra, Santos, Bermudez [col.] (MIUP); 2♂, Cana, Serraria {Serrania} de Pirre, 1450 m, 4–7.vi.1995 F[light] I[interception] T[rap], J Ashe, R. Brooks (UFES).
Distribution (Fig. 238). Panama (Coclé and Darién).
description: Published as part of Azevedo, Celso O., 2017, Review of Dissomphalus Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Panama, with key to the Central American species, pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 4335 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4335.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1010014