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
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5019.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5019.1.1
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20.
Odontepyris indicus
(
Kurian, 1954b
)
Fig. 20
, A–L
Trissomalus indicus
Kurian, 1954b
, 3: 426–429, Figs: 19–23.
Type locality:
Bangalore
,
Karnataka
,
India
(
♀
holotype
,
NFIC-FRI
, examined)
.
Diagnosis.
Female. Length 5.3 mm. General colour black. Head wider than long; frons coriaceous; ocelli distinct, anterior 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 tetradentate; antenna with dense pubescence, scape 2.6× longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum coriaceous; mesonotum as long as pronotal dorsal area; notauli absent. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina present. Tarsal claw bifid. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma light brown, 2R1
2
c cell opened, Rs+M
2
v vein absent, 1M
2
c opened. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.
Material examined.
Holotype
: [
INDIA
,
Karnataka
,]
Bangalore
,
16-IX-1950
, on sugarcane borer,
B. Krishnamoorti
coll.
Type conditions.
Holotype
partly dissected
on slide
Nº. 141/B and remaining rested on the pin.
Pinned
: Body complete, intact, head with left antenna, mesosoma with left pair of wings, all the left legs and right metaleg and metasoma.
On slides
: S1 C1—one forewing and one hind wing. S1 C2—one proleg and one metaleg; one antenna.
Hosts.
Sugarcane borer (unidentified species).