Rediscovery of Kurian’s types of Hymenoptera at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India with notes on Indian bethylid fauna
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Singh, Sudhir
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Author
Colombo, Wesley D.
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Author
Shreevihar, Santhosh
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Author
Pandey, Vijay P.
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Tribull, Carly M.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-08-10
5019
1
1
90
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5019.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5019.1.1
1175-5326
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13.
Goniozus salvadorae
(
Kurian, 1954b
)
Figs 13
, A–H;
51
, C–D.
Perisierola salvadorae
Kurian, 1954b
, 3: 433–436, 437, Figs: 34–39.
Type locality:
St John’s College
,
Agra
,
India
(
♀
holotype
,
NFIC-FRI
).
Diagnosis.
Female. Length 2.0 mm–2.5 mm. General colour black. Head wider than long; frons weakly coriaceous; ocelli distinct; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin rounded, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; mandible tetradentate; antenna with dense pubescence, scape 2.0 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli present, weak. Metapectal-propodeal disc as long as wide; metapostnotal median carina absent. Tarsal claw simple. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma light brown, 2
R1
2
c cell opened, Rs+M
2
v vein present, 1M
2
c closed. Metasoma polished. Male. Morphologically similar to female, except for genitalia: Harpe completely divided into dorsal and ventral arms, shorter than gonostipes in dorsal view, dorsal arm with apex rounded, not arched inward; gonostipes wide, covering aedeagal base; apex of cuspis anterior to apex of dorsal arm of harpe; digitus with apex posterior to apex of cuspis, its posterior margin serrated; aedeagus bottle-shaped, its apex aligned to apex of digitus
.
FIGURE 13. A–H.
Goniozus salvadorae
(
Kurian, 1954b
)
. Holotype.
A.
Head, frontal view;
B.
Mesosoma, dorsal view;
C.
Antenna;
D.
Posterior half of mesonotum and Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view;
E.
Proleg;
F.
Metasoma, dorsal view;
G.
Forewing;
H.
Two slides, lower one is of holotype (mistakenly marked as paratype).
Material examined.
Holotype
: [
INDIA
,
Uttar Pradesh
,]
Agra
,
St John’s College
,
25-XI-1954
,
Chandy Kurian
coll., bethylid parasites from
Psyllid
galls on S
alvadora persicae
.
Allotype
:
1♂
, same data of
holotype
.
Type conditions.
Holotype
completely dissected
on slide
Nº. 148/B.
On slides
: S1 C1—head (cracked); mesosoma with both prolegs and one forewing; metasoma; two legs complete; one tibia and tarsi. S1 C2—two antennae, one with two distal flagellomeres missing; two legs, one with tarsi and tibia missing; one coxa; one forewing.
Allotype
male dissected
on slide
Nº. 149/B.
On slides
: S2 C1—head with partial antenna; four legs, two without coxae. S2 C2—mesosoma and metasoma intact with two forewings, hind wings and one metaleg.
Remarks
: Kurian dissected
one female
(
holotype
) and
one male
(
allotype
) on two slides. However, on one of the slides, “
Paratype
” is mistakenly written instead of “
Holotype
”. The
paratypes
(in alcohol) are not present in NFIC.
Hosts.
Lepidoptera
:
Blastobasidae
:
Holcocera pulverea
(Meyrick)
.