Opisthacantha nomados Talamas, 2017

Talamas, Elijah J., Thompson, Joseph, Cutler, Amy, Schoenberger, Samantha Fitzsimmons, Cuminale, Anthony, Jung, Trenton, Johnson, Norman F., Valerio, Alejandro A., Smith, Ashton B., Haltermann, Victoria, Alvarez, Elizabeth, Schwantes, Collin, Blewer, Catherine, Bodenreider, Coline, Salzberg, Annika, Luo, Pei, Meislin, Debra & Buffington, Matthew L., 2017, An online photographic catalog of primary types of Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 56, pp. 187-224 : 199-200

Opisthacantha nomados Talamas n. n. Figures 42-45

Baryconus (Holoteleia) indica Mani, 1975: 73 (original description).

Holoteleia indica (Mani): Mani and Sharma 1982: 181 (description, generic transfer); Johnson 1992: 401 (cataloged, type information).

Link to distribution map.

http://hol.osu.edu/map-large.html?id=4550

Material examined.

Holotype, female: INDIA: Maharashtra St., Khandala , 21.IX-22.IX.1971, Mani, USNMENT01109813 (deposited in USNM).

Replacement name.

Mani (1975) described Opisthacantha indica in the same paper in which Baryconus (Holoteleia) indica was originally described. We resolve this homonymy by proposing a replacement name for the latter. We selected the epithet, " nomados ", which is Greek for “wanderer” for this species as it roams from one genus to another. The names is treated as a noun in apposition.

Comments.

Malar and facial striae are present in the holotype specimen of O. nomados , both of which exclude this species from Holoteleia in the concept of this genus presented by Masner (1980), Masner (1994) and Talamas and Buffington (2015). The placement of Baryconus indica by Mani and Sharma (1982) in Holoteleia is also inconsistent with the concept of the genus presented by Mani and Sharma (1982), which stated that the genus has a "metanotum narrow, medially without lamina or lamella". Examination of the holotype reveals that the metascutellum forms a large posteriorly projecting plate (Figure 43 ), consistent with the form found in Opisthacantha (Trissoscelio) nigriceps Kieffer. Trissoscelio Kieffer is currently treated as a junior synonym of Opisthacantha Ashmead, but changes to the classification of the genera presently treated as Opisthacantha are likely to occur when this complex is reanalyzed. We note that O. nomados should follow Opisthacantha (Trissoscelio) nigriceps in the event of such change.

Figures

Figures 42 - 44. Opisthacantha indica, female holotype (USNMENT 01109813) 42 head, mesosoma, metasoma, dorsal view 43 mesoscutellum, mesoscutellum, propodeum, T 1, T 2, dorsolateral view 44 head, mesosoma, metasoma, ventral view 45 head, ventral view. Scale bars in millimeters.