Taeniogonalos fulvoscutellata ( Ayyar, 1919 )

Binoy, C., van Achterberg, Cornelis, Polaszek, Andrew, Kumar, P. Girish & Santhosh, S., 2022, A review of Taeniogonalos (Hymenoptera: Trigonalyidae) from India with the description of two new species, Journal of Natural History 56 (21 - 24), pp. 1153-1185 : 1161-1162

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 ).

Figures

Figures 3(a–d). Taeniogonalos mimus (Cockerell, 1920) (= T. fulvoscutellata (Ayyar)). Holotype ♀. a. Habitus, lateral view; b. Head, dorsal view; c. Habitus, dorsal view; d. Type labels.

Figures 4(a–e). Taeniogonalos fulvoscutellata (Ayyar, 1919) ♀. a. Habitus, lateral view; b. Antenna; c. Head, lateral view; d. Head, dorsal view; e. Head, frontal view.

Figures 5(a–f). Taeniogonalos fulvoscutellata (Ayyar, 1919) ♀. a. Mesosoma, lateral view; b. Mesosoma, dorsal view; c. Fore wing; d. Metasoma, lateral view; e. Metasomal tergites, dorsal view; f. Metasomal sternites, ventral view.