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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Colombo, Wesley D.
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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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2.
Goniozus chatterjii
Kurian, 1955
Fig. 2
, A–M
Goniozus chatterjii
Kurian, 1955
, 4: 113, 115–117, Figs: 176–181.
Type locality:
Dehradun
,
Uttarakhand
,
India
(
♀
holotype
,
NFIC-FRI
)
.
Diagnosis
. Female. Length about 2.4 mm. General colour dark 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 almost angled, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; mandible tetradentate; antenna with dense pubescence, scape 2.3 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum weakly coriaceous; mesonotum longer than pronotal dorsal area; notauli inconspicuous. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina absent; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed. Tarsal claw simple. Wings nearly hyaline; forewing with pterostigma dark brown, 2R1
2
c cell opened, Rs+M
2
v vein present, 1M
2
c opened. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.
Material examined.
Holotype
: [
INDIA
,
Uttarakhand
,]
Dehra Dun
{
Dehradun
}, parasitic
on
Pyralidae
larvae defoliating mulberry, U.P. N.C. coll.,
28-IV-1949
, RRD 628, BCR 226, Chatterji Cage-B.J. 343, Ajabpur
.
Paratypes
:
1♀
, with same data as of the
holotype
.
Type conditions.
Holotype
completely dissected and mounted on a slide Nº. 125/B.
On slide
: S1 C1—head (with one antenna) attached with mesosoma; metasoma; another antenna; six legs; two forewings and one hind wing.
Paratypes
partly dissected
on slides
Nº. 125/B is not present in
NFIC
and Nº. 119/B, and remaining rested on the pin.
Pinned
: Head and mesosoma intact; metasoma pasted on another card on the same pin. Head with right antenna complete, left with basal flagellomeres; mesosoma with all the legs, and both pairs of wings.
On slide
: S1 C1—mesosoma with one mesoleg and two metalegs; two forewings, two hind wings; one antenna; two legs, one with coxa and femur and another without coxa.
Remarks.
Kurian (1955)
cited
two paratypes
, but one with the number 125/B is not present in NFIC, only its labels are remaining.
Hosts.
Lepidoptera
:
Pyralidae
larvae on mulberry.