Bethylinae Haliday, 1839

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 : 8

Subfamily Bethylinae Haliday, 1839

Type genus: Bethylus Latreille, 1802

Genus Goniozus Förster, 1856

Goniozus Förster, 1856 , 2: 95, 96.

Type species: Bethylus claripennis Förster, 1851 by subsequent designation.

Kurian originally described 14 species of Goniozus , two in 1952 ( G. morindae and G. nephoterycis ) and 12 in 1955 ( G. ahmeadi , G. chatterjii , G. chowdhari , G. hybleae , G. hypsipylae , G. lygropiae , G. madrassippattanami , G. marasmi , G. mori , G. nilamburensis , G. sanctijohannis and G. thalasodi ). Evans (1978) synonymized Perisierola Kieffer, 1914 with Goniozus , and also transferred two species of Odontepyris Kieffer, 1904a described by Kurian (1954b) ( O. pulveriae , O. salvadorae ) to Goniozus . Later, Polaszek & Krombein (1994) transferred G. hypsipylae Kurian, 1955 to Odontepyris . As a result, Goniozus now has 15 species described by Kurian.