Foenatopus iridipennis Elliott, 1919

Binoy, C., Achterberg, C. Van, Kumar, P. Girish, Santhosh, S. & Sheela, S., 2020, A review of Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea) from India, with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 4838 (1), pp. 1-51 : 16

Foenatopus iridipennis Elliott, 1919

Foenatopus iridipennis Elliott, 1919a , Entomologist, 52, 30.

Type material. Syntype ♀, India: Uttarakhand, Dehradun (30°19′4.8″N & 78°1′44.4″E, 447m), ix.1907, Coll. Lt. Col. F.W. Thomson, I.M.S. Syntype ♂, India: Himachal Pradesh, Kangra Valley (32°10′ N & 76°30′ E, 610m), vii.1889, Coll. Dudgeon. Repository? (Type specimens missing) .

Diagnosis. Body length 15 mm, ovipositor sheath length 22 mm. Frons arcuate rugose; vertex distinctly transstriate with two short carinae; neck smooth, pronotum trans-striate with narrow smooth posterior margin; mesoscutum with large well separated punctures; metapleura cribrate punctate, separated by a carina; wings hyaline, strongly iridescent; hind coxa finely trans-striate; hind femora tridentate; first metasomal tergite trans-striate, as long as rest of metasomal tergites combined; ovipositor sheath half as long as body with a subapical pale ivory band.

Male. Placed with the female; slender, head finely striate; metapleura striate; colour of head testaceous while red in female.

Distribution. Oriental: India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand).

Host. Unknown.

Note. The types are not available, therefore, the above mentioned diagnosis is obtained from the original description.