A review of Taeniogonalos (Hymenoptera: Trigonalyidae) from India with the description of two new species
Author
Binoy, C.
Author
van Achterberg, Cornelis
Author
Polaszek, Andrew
Author
Kumar, P. Girish
Author
Santhosh, S.
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Journal of Natural History
2022
2022-08-30
56
21 - 24
1153
1185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2022.2088311
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2022.2088311
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Taeniogonalos kerala
(
Ayyar, 1919
)
(
Figures 8a–d
,
9a–e
and
10a–f
)
Poecilogonalos kerala
Ayyar, 1919: 472
[
India
:
Kerala
,
Santhanathode
,
Western Ghats
,
Malabar (Wayanad) district
, coll. T.V.
Ramakrishna Ayyar
;
7 October 1917
]. (see Materials and methods for
holotype
deposition) (transferred to
Taeniogonalos
by
Carmean and Kimsey 1998: 67
).
Poecilogonalos henicospili
Rohwer, 1929: 65
(transferred to
Taeniogonalos
by
Carmean and Kimsey 1998: 68
). syn. nov.
Type material
Holotype
of
T. henicospili
,
♀
(
Figures 8a–d
),
India
:
Assam
, Jorhat,
March 1927
, coll. C.P. Clausen, ex. cocoons of
Henicospilus rufus
Tosq.
, no. 2084 (metasoma missing) (
USNM
) Type No. 40978, USNMENT 01545589.
Additional material examined
♀
,
India
:
Kerala
,
Ernakulam district
,
Thattekad Bird Sanctuary
(
10.129°N
,
76.6877°E
; alt.
450 m
),
5 February 2017
, coll
. P
.
Girish Kumar
,
(
ZSIK
)
Regd
.
No
. ZSI/
WGRC
/IR/INV.17489.
Diagnosis
Scutellum bicoloured and middle lobe of mesoscutum tricoloured (
Figures 8c
and
10b
); outer side of supra-antennal elevations oblique and elevations 0.4× as long as scape; occipital carina marked; head densely rugose-punctate, interspaces smooth and shiny, punctures fade posteriorly towards occiput and ventrally towards temple; temple dorsally largely smooth except for scattered punctures near the outer eye margin (
Figures 8b
and
9c–e
); head distinctly wide in dorsal view; posterior margin of second metasomal sternite straight, armature absent.