Goniozus nephoterycis Kurian, 1952

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 : 21

10. Goniozus nephoterycis Kurian, 1952

Fig. 10 , A–K

Goniozus nephoterycis Kurian, 1952 , 1: 63–66, Figs: 7–11.

Type locality: Pusa , Bihar, India (♂ holotype, NFIC-FRI) .

Diagnosis. Male. Length about 2.75 mm. General colour dark reddish-brown to black. Head as long as wide; frons coriaceous; ocelli distinct, posterior 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 tridentate; antenna with sparse pubescence, scape 2.0 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer 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 light brown, 2R1 2 c cell opened, Rs+M 2 v vein present, 1M 2 c opened. Metasoma damaged and genitalia lost. Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Bihar], Pusa , 9-XI-1931, Nephoteryx larv[a]e binding leaves of Cassia fistula .

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected and mounted on slide Nº. 1/B. Pinned: body complete. Head with scape, pedicel and few flagellomeres, mesosoma damaged with left legs. On slide : S1 C1—one forewing and one hind wing. S1 C2—one forewing and one hind wing. S2 C1—one leg. S2 C2—two legs; one antenna.

Remarks. The distal part of the metasoma is damaged (probably eaten by dermestids), and therefore the genitalia are missing.

Hosts. Lepidoptera : Phyticidae: Nephoteryx Hübner.

Figures

FIGURE 10. A–K. Goniozus nephoterycis Kurian, 1952. Holotype. A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Head, lateral view; D.Antenna; E. Mesosoma, dorsal view; F. Mesosoma, lateral view; G. Posterior half of mesonotum and Metapectalpropodeal disc, dorsal view; H. Forewing; I. Legs (left to right) pro- and metalegs; J. Two slides of holotype; K. Labels.