Sulcomesitius bahaduri ( Kurian, 1955 )

Singh, Sudhir, Colombo, Wesley D., Shreevihar, Santhosh, Pandey, Vijay P. & Tribull, Carly M., 2021, Rediscovery of Kurian’s types of Hymenoptera at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India with notes on Indian bethylid fauna, Zootaxa 5019 (1), pp. 1-90 : 64-65

38. Sulcomesitius bahaduri ( Kurian, 1955)

Fig. 38 , A–H

Mesitius bahaduri Kurian, 1955 , 4: 83–85, Figs: 67–69.

Type locality: Pusa , Bihar, Bahadurpur, India (♀ holotype, NFIC-FRI). Diagnosis. Female. Length about 5.2 mm. General colour black with apex of metasoma reddish-brown. Head as long as wide; frons coriaceus; ocelli distinct; eye weakly setose; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin rounded, longer than lateral ones; antenna with dense pubescence, scape 2.3 × longer than pedicel, pedicel shorter than first flagellomere. Pronotum coriaceous, median pronotal line sulcate, posterior pronotal line foveolate; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli complete, deep, longer than parapsidal signum; mesoscutomesoscutellar suture sulcate, deep, posterior margin incurved medially. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina absent; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed; posterior propodeal projection spineshaped. Tarsal claw bifid. Wing with two hyaline spots; forewing with pterostigma slight brown; hind wing with three hamuli. Metasoma polished; second abdominal segment distinctly longer than distal ones. Male. Unknown .

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA], Bihar, Pusa, Bahadur { Bahadurpur }, 28-VII-1915.

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 96/B and remaining rested on the pin. Head and metasoma missing from the pin. Pinned: Mesosoma, with left wings and mesoleg and all coxae. On slides : S1 C1—one metaleg without coxae; three coxae. S2 C1—one forewing and one hind wing. S2 C2—one proleg; one metaleg without coxa; one antenna.

Hosts. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 38. A–H. Sulcomesitius bahaduri Kurian, 1955. Holotype. A. Mesosoma, dorso-lateral view; B. Antenna; C. Legs, left pro- and right metaleg; D. Mesosoma, dorsal view; E. Mesosoma, lateral view; F. Forewing; G. Two slides of holotype; H. Labels.