Goniozus hybleae 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 : 13

4. Goniozus hybleae Kurian, 1955

Fig. 4 , A–L

Goniozus hybleae Kurian, 1955 , 4: 114, 118, 119, Figs: 188–193.

Type locality: Nilambur , Tamil Nadu, India (♀ holotype, NFIC-FRI) .

Diagnosis. Female. Length 2.0 mm–3.0 mm. General colour dark brown to black. Head wider than long; frons coriaceous; ocelli distinct, posterior to supra-ocular line; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin almost angled, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; mandible tridentate; antenna with sparse pubescence, scape 2.6 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum weakly coriaceous; mesonotum as long as pronotal dorsal area; notauli inconspicuous. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina absent; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed. Tarsal claw simple. Wings nearly hyaline; forewing with pterostigma dark brown, 2R1 2 c cell opened, Rs+M 2 v vein absent. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Kerala,] Nilambur; [Tamil Nadu,] Madras , except: Nº. 248; RRD 671, parasitic on Hyblaea puera , 15-VII-1939 . Paratypes: 2♀, same data of holotype .

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 133/B and remaining rested on the pin. Pinned: mesosoma intact mesosoma with left pro- and metacoxa, right side glued and right legs inside the glue, metasoma intact. On slides : S1 C1—two legs, one without coxa another without distal two tarsomeres; basal half of forewing; three apical flagellomeres. S1 C2—crushed head with both antennae—one without three apical flagellomeres, second without scape, pedicel and first flagellomere. S2 C1—three forewings and two hind wings. S2 C2—one metaleg without coxa. Paratypes on pin with same label “Nº. 133/B” (see remarks).

Remarks. There are three specimens, each mounted on a card and all three pinned together. The holotype is not specified, but according to the original description and label “133/B Holo[type] & Para [type]”, we concluded that the top specimen is probably the holotype and the lower two are the paratypes. While the slides are marked as ‘holotype’, fragments of the antenna (in S1 C1) and some of the forewings (in S2 C1) are from paratypes.

Hosts. Lepidoptera : Hyblaeidae : Hyblaea puera (Cramer) .

Figures

FIGURE 4. A–L. Goniozus hybleae Kurian, 1955. A–D, H–J. Holotype. A. Mesosoma and metasoma, dorso-lateral view; B. Head with antennae; C. Legs; (left to right) pro, meso and metaleg; D. Forewing; H. Mesosoma, dorsal view; I. Mesosoma, lateral view; J. Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view. E–G. Paratype. E. Habitus, dorsal view; F. Head, dorsal view; G. Antenna. K. Two slides of holotype. L. Common labels of holotype and paratypes.