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
0000-0002-4999-1971
sant@mccclt.ac.in
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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
5222728
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17.
Odontepyris batrae
Kurian, 1955
Fig. 17
, A–L
Odontepyris batrae
Kurian, 1955
, 4: 130–132, Figs: 237–242.
Type locality:
Pusa
,
Bihar
,
India
(
♀
holotype
,
NFIC-FRI
)
.
Diagnosis
. Female. Length 5.20 mm–6.50 mm. General colour black. Head wider than long; frons strongly coriaceous; ocelli distinct, anterior to supra-ocular line; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin rounded, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; mandible tetradentate; antenna with sparse pubescence, scape 2.2× longer than pedicel, pedicel shorter than first flagellomere. Pronotum coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli absent. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina present; first abdominal spiracle dorsolaterally placed. Tarsal claw bifid. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma light brown, 2R1
2
c cell opened, Rs+M
2
v vein absent, 1M
2
c closed, small and subtriangular. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.
Material examined.
Holotype
: [
INDIA
,
Bihar
],
Pusa
,
18-IV-1934
,
H.N. Batra
[coll.,] bethylid parasite
.
Paratypes
:
3♀
, same data of the
holotype
.
Type conditions.
Holotype
partly dissected
on slide
Nº. 85/B and remaining rested on the pin.
Pinned
: Body complete, head (with left antenna having scape, pedicel and first flagellomere), mesosoma (with left wings, pro- and mesolegs and right coxa) and metasoma.
On slides
: S1 C1—one mesoleg with detached coxae nearby. S2 C1—one forewing and one hind wing. S2 C2—one proleg without coxa and one metaleg; one antenna without apical flagellomeres.
Paratypes
partly dissected
on slides
and remaining rested on the pins.
Pinned
: Body complete, with right wings, partial antennae, and legs pinned separately.
On slides
: S3 C1—two legs. S4 C1—one leg; one antenna; S4 C2—one forewing and one hind wing. S5 C1—two legs. S6 C1—one coxa. S7 C1—three legs (one without coxa); one antenna. S7 C2—one forewing and one hind wing.
Hosts.
Unknown.