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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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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10.
Goniozus nephoterycis
Kurian, 1952
Fig. 10
, A–K
Goniozus nephoterycis
Kurian, 1952
, 1: 63–66, Figs: 7–11.
Type locality:
Pusa
,
Bihar
,
India
(
♂
holotype
,
NFIC-FRI
)
.
Diagnosis
. Male. Length about 2.75 mm. General colour dark reddish-brown to black. Head as long as wide; frons coriaceous; ocelli distinct, posterior to supra-ocular line; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin angled, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; mandible tridentate; antenna with sparse pubescence, scape 2.0 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli absent. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina absent; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed. Tarsal claw bifid. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma light brown, 2R1
2
c cell opened, Rs+M
2
v vein present, 1M
2
c opened. Metasoma damaged and genitalia lost. Female. Unknown.
Material examined.
Holotype
: [
INDIA
,
Bihar
],
Pusa
,
9-XI-1931
,
Nephoteryx
larv[a]e binding leaves of
Cassia fistula
.
Type conditions.
Holotype
partly dissected and mounted
on slide
Nº. 1/B.
Pinned
: body complete. Head with scape, pedicel and few flagellomeres, mesosoma damaged with left legs.
On slide
: S1 C1—one forewing and one hind wing. S1 C2—one forewing and one hind wing. S2 C1—one leg. S2 C2—two legs; one antenna.
Remarks.
The distal part of the metasoma is damaged (probably eaten by dermestids), and therefore the genitalia are missing.
Hosts.
Lepidoptera
: Phyticidae:
Nephoteryx
Hübner.