Dissomphalus krombeini 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 krombeini

description: Dissomphalus krombeini Azevedo, 1999
(Figs 68, 69)
Dissomphalus krombeini Azevedo, 1999c: 52 –54 (♂, holotype from U.S.A., PMAE, fig. 6); 2003: 20–21; Redighieri & Azevedo, 2006: 309.
Diagnosis. Male. Dark castaneous; wings hyaline. Mandible with four apical teeth. Clypeus broadly projected forward, median tooth minute, median carina slightly high, angled in profile, lateral lobes undefined. Frons weakly coriaceous. Vertex slightly convex. Notaulus short, very weak. Parapsidal furrow incomplete anteriorly. T2 with pair of shallow subcircular lateral depressions, small tubercle present, giving rise to linear tuft of setae, lateral one distinctly longer than others. Hypopygium short and wide, posterior margin slightly broadly concave. Genitalia: paramere with wide apex, truncate, arched inward, corners somewhat sharp, base dorsal margin much projected in- and downward; cuspis long and much arched; aedeagal ventral ramus nearly as long as dorsal body, basal three fourths wide with inner margin parallel and straight and outer margin slightly convex, apical fourth narrow with apex truncate and inclined, outer corner sharp; dorsal body with pair of apical lobe, outer margin bulging, inner margin weakly setose, apex narrow, basal process with median spine. Female unknown.
Variations. T2 with depressions circular.
Remarks. Seven specimens of D. krombeini were registered from Espírito Santo (Azevedo 2003; Redighieri & Azevedo 2006), and we add more 50 new ones.
Material examined. Types: Holotype ♂, U.S.A., Florida, Monroe Co., Sugarloaf Key, Kitching, hammock forest, 6.VI–29.VIII.1986, Malaise /FIT, S. & J. Peck col. (PMAE). Material revised: BRAZIL, Espírito Santo: 1♂, Santa Teresa, Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, 19º58’S 40º32’W, 06–09.IV.2001, armadilha Malaise, C.O. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. (MZSP). 6♂, Cariacica, Reserva Biológica de Duas Bocas, 24.IX–10.XII.1996, C.O. Azevedo & E.H. Freitas col. (UFES). New material examined: 1♂, Conceição da Barra, Parque Estadual de Itaúnas, 18º20’S 39º40W, 23–25.XI.2006, Moericke, M.T. Tavares & equipe col. (UFES); 6♂, Pinheiros, Res [erva] Biol [ógica] do Córrego do Veado, 18º21’S 40º09’W, 09–06.XII.2011, arm[adilha] Malaise, M.T. Tavares & equipe col. (UFES); 1♂, Sooretama, Reserva Biológica de Sooretama, 11–19.XI.2011, [armadilha] Malaise, C.O. Azevedo col. (UFES); 1♂, Linhares, Cultura de Café, 01.IX.1999, V.L.R.M. Benassi col. (UFES); 4♂, Linhares, cultura de coco, [19º25’S 40º04’W], 13.VI–3.X.2008, arm[adilha] Möricke, E. F. Comério col. (UFES); 1♂, Linhares, Faz [enda] Benesfort, Povoação, Restinga arbórea, 8–10.X.2000, varredura, [C.O.] Azevedo & Schiffler col. (UFES); 1♂, João Neiva, Alto Bérgamo, mata, 19º44’S 40º26’W, 27.X–3.XI.2008, arm[adilha] Malaise, C.O. Azevedo & equipe col. (UFES); 1♂, São Roque do Canaã, Alto Misterioso, 19º48’ 0,3S 40º46’ 29,8W, 02– 11.XI.2007, [armadilha] Malaise, Waichert & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 1♂, S[an]ta Teresa, R [eserva] B[iológica] S[an]ta Lúcia {= Estação Biológica [de] Santa Lúcia}, [19°56’S 40°36’W], 27.VII.2004, sweep, M.T. Tavares & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 1♂, Santa Teresa, Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, [19º58’ 40º32’W], 15–19.X.2010, [armadilha] Malaise, M.T. Tavares & equipe col. (UFES); 20♂, Santa Teresa, Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, [19º58’ 40º32’W], 13–17.X.2008. (UFES); 5♂, Santa Maria de Jetibá, Faz [enda] Clarindo Krüger, 20º04’S 40º44’O, 29.XI–13.XII.2002, armadilha Malaise, M. Tavares, C. Azevedo e eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 2♂, Domingos Martins, Pico do Eldorado, 20º22’S 40º39’W, 3–10.XII.2004, [armadilha] Malaise, [M.T.] Tavares & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 1♂, Guarapari, Parque Estadual Paulo César Vinha, restinga, 20º36’S 40º25’W, 15–23.V.2006, [armadilha] Malaise, Kawada, R & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 3♂, Alfredo Chaves, Picadão, mata, 20º27’S 40º42’W, 8–15.X.2007, arm[adilha] Malaise, C.O. Azevedo & eq[uipe] col. (UFES); 1♂, 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. Dominican Republic, Saint Vincent, U.S.A. Dominica, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Brazil (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 17-18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4143.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/260759