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 fulvoscutellata
(
Ayyar, 1919
)
(
Figures 3
a-d, 4a–e and 5a–f)
Poecilogonalos fulvoscutellata
Ayyar, 1919: 471
[
India
:
Tamil Nadu
, Pulney Hills,
3600 feet
, Madura district. Coll. P. Susainathan (P.S. Nathan);
v. 1917
] (see Materials and methods for
holotype
deposition) (transferred to
Taeniogonalos
by
Carmean and Kimsey 1998: 67
)
Poecilogonalos mimus
Cockerell 1920: 191
;
Rohwer 1929: 66
(synonym of
T. fulvoscutellata
(Ayyar)
by
Bischoff 1938: 7
;
Weinstein and Austin 1991: 423
)
Taeniogonalos sauteri
(non
Bischoff 1913
):
Smith and Tripotin 2015: 11–12
(misidentification)
Type material
Holotype
of
T. mimus
,
♀
(
Figures 3a–d
),
India
:
Tamil Nadu
,
Palani
hills (= south
India
,
Pulney
hills),
3000–6000 ft.
,
10–31 May 1917
, coll.
P. S. Nathan
(
USNM
)
Type No.
23451, USNMENT 01545544.
Additional material examined
♀
,
India
:
Kerala
,
Thrissur district
,
Malakkappara
(
10.279°N
,
76.861°E
; alt.
949 m
),
1 February 2017
, coll
. P
.
Girish Kumar
(
ZSIK
)
Regd
.
No
. ZSI/
WGRC
/IR/INV.17488.
Diagnosis
Scutellum entirely yellow-orange or yellow (
Figures 3c
and
5b
); outer side of supraantennal elevations oblique and elevations 0.4× as long as scape; occipital carina distinct; head finely punctate, punctures on head widely placed, more than half the diameter of individual punctures, interspaces smooth and shiny, punctures fade posteriorly towards occiput and ventrally towards gena (
Figure 4d
); temple dorsally largely smooth except for some punctures (
Figure 4c
); head distinctly wide in dorsal view; second metasomal sternite of female subtruncate apically, armature truncate posteriorly (
Figure 5f
).