Rediscovery of Kurian’s types of Hymenoptera at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India with notes on Indian bethylid fauna Author Singh, Sudhir 0000-0001-5504-7509 ssandot2@gmail.com Author Colombo, Wesley D. 0000-0001-8729-4635 wesleycolombo@gmail.com Author Shreevihar, Santhosh 0000-0002-4999-1971 sant@mccclt.ac.in Author Pandey, Vijay P. 0000-0002-8307-1810 vijayppandey@gmail.com Author Tribull, Carly M. 0000-0002-1044-0486 text 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 241751BA-E759-49B8-A394-271B2A4650AD 15. Goniozus thalasodi Kurian, 1955 Figs 15 , A–L; 51 , E–F. Goniozus thalasodi Kurian, 1955 , 4: 114, 129, 130, 135, Figs: 232–236. Type locality: Pusa , Bihar , India ( ♂ holotype , NFIC-FRI ) . Diagnosis . Male. Length about 1.8 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; antenna with dense pubescence, scape 1.8× longer than pedicel, pedicel as long as first flagellomere. Pronotum coriaceous; mesonotum shorter 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 hyaline; forewing with pterostigma light brown, 2R1 2 c cell opened, Rs+M 2 v vein present, 1M 2 c opened. Metasoma polished. Genitalia: Harpe completely divided into dorsal and ventral arms, shorter than gonostipes in dorsal view, dorsal arm with apex rounded, weakly arched inward; gonostipes wide, not covering aedeagal base; apex of cuspis anterior to apex of dorsal arm of harpe; digitus with apex posterior to apex of cuspis, its posterior margin strongly serrated; aedeagus bottle-shaped, its apex posterior to apex of digitus. Female. Unknown. FIGURE 14. A–J. Goniozus sanctijohannis Kurian, 1955 . Holotype. A. Habitus, dorsal view; B. Habitus, lateral view; C. Head, frontal view; D. Antenna; E. Legs, upper proleg and lower metaleg; F. Posterior half of mesonotum and Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view; G. Forewing; H. Metasoma, dorsal view; I. two slides of holotype; J. Labels. Material examined. Holotype : [ INDIA , Bihar ], Pusa , 17-I-1921 , parasitic on Thalasodes vevaria { Thalassodes veraria } on litchi leaves. Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 52/B and remaining rested on the pin. Pinned : body complete and intact. Head with right scape and left antenna up to two basal flagellomeres, mesosoma with right pair of wings and right legs. On slide : S1 C1—pro and metalegs complete; two similar legs without coxae and femur; one antenna without scape; one forewing. Remarks. In the original publication, Kurian (1955) described a female as the holotype , but the description is given under the heading ‘Male’. We dissected the genitalia of the holotype , which is marked by Kurian as ‘male’, and found it to be a male. So, we concluded that the heading of the original description (‘female’) was Kurian’s mistake. Male genitalia and some sclerites of the last segment of the metasoma are mounted on slide S1. Hosts. Lepidoptera : Geometridae : Thalassodes veraria (Guenée) . Genus Odontepyris Kieffer, 1904a Odontepyris Kieffer, 1904a , 1: 378. Type species: Goniozus transvaalensis Buysson, 1897 by original monotypy. Kurian (1954b , 1955 ) described three species of Odontepyris , O. argyriae , O. batrae and O. cirphi . Later, Polaszek & Krombein (1994) synonymized Trissomalus Kieffer, 1905 with Odontepyris and transferred one species ( T. indicus ) described by Kurian (1954b) to Odontepyris . Polaszek & Krombein (1994) also transferred to Odontepyris from Goniozus the species G. hypsipylae , which was originally described by Kurian (1955) . So, Odontepyris now has five species described by Kurian.