Odontepyris indicus ( Kurian, 1954b )

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 : 37

20. Odontepyris indicus ( Kurian, 1954b)

Fig. 20 , A–L

Trissomalus indicus Kurian, 1954b , 3: 426–429, Figs: 19–23.

Type locality: Bangalore , Karnataka, India (♀ holotype, NFIC-FRI, examined) .

Diagnosis. Female. Length 5.3 mm. General colour black. Head wider than long; frons coriaceous; ocelli distinct, anterior to supra-ocular line; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin angled, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; mandible tetradentate; antenna with dense pubescence, scape 2.6× longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum coriaceous; mesonotum as long as pronotal dorsal area; notauli absent. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina present. Tarsal claw bifid. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma light brown, 2R1 2 c cell opened, Rs+M 2 v vein absent, 1M 2 c opened. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Karnataka,] Bangalore , 16-IX-1950, on sugarcane borer, B. Krishnamoorti coll.

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 141/B and remaining rested on the pin. Pinned: Body complete, intact, head with left antenna, mesosoma with left pair of wings, all the left legs and right metaleg and metasoma. On slides : S1 C1—one forewing and one hind wing. S1 C2—one proleg and one metaleg; one antenna.

Hosts. Sugarcane borer (unidentified species).

Figures

FIGURE 20. A–L. Odontepyris indicus (Kurian, 1954b). Holotype.A. Habitus, dorsal view; B. Habitus, lateral view; C. Head, frontal view; D. Antenna; E. Head, lateral view; F. Legs, left pro- and right hindleg; G. Posterior part of mesonotum and Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view; H. Part of head and mesosoma, dorsal view; I. Forewing; J. Metasoma, dorsal view; K. Slide of holotype; L. Labels.