Goniozus sanctijohannis 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 : 28

14. Goniozus sanctijohannis Kurian, 1955

Fig. 14 , A–J

Goniozus sancti-johannis Kurian, 1955 , 4: 114, 128, Figs: 227–231.

Type locality: St John’s College , Agra, India (♀ holotype, NFIC-FRI) .

Diagnosis. Female. Length about 3.0 mm. General colour black. Head as long as wide; frons coriaceous; ocelli distinct, posterior to supra-ocular line; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin rounded, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; antenna with sparse pubescence, scape 1.5 × longer than pedicel, pedicel shorter than first flagellomere. Pronotum coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli absent. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina absent; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed. Tarsal claw bifid. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma dark brown, 2R1 2 c cell opened, Rs+M 2 v vein present, 1M 2 c opened. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Uttar Pradesh,] Agra, St John’s College , 10-III-1950, Chandy Kurian coll.

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 21/B and remaining rested on the pin. Pinned: body complete and intact. Head with left antenna, mesosoma with left pair of wings and left metaleg. On slides : S1 C1— one forewing and one hind wing. S1 C2—one proleg without coxa; one antenna. S2 C1—one mesoleg complete; three legs without coxae; two separate coxae.

Hosts. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 14. A–J. Goniozus sanctijohannis Kurian, 1955. Holotype.A. Habitus, dorsal view; B. Habitus, lateral view; C. Head, frontal view; D. Antenna; E. Legs, upper proleg and lower metaleg; F. Posterior half of mesonotum and Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view; G. Forewing; H. Metasoma, dorsal view; I. two slides of holotype; J. Labels.