Epyris shishami ( 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 : 53

32. Epyris shishami ( Kurian, 1955)

Fig. 32 , A–K

Neodisepyris shishami Kurian, 1955 , 4: 106, 111–113, Figs: 166–170.

Type locality: Dehradun , India (♀ holotype, NFIC-FRI, examined) .

Diagnosis. Female. Length about 5.2 mm. General colour black with apex of metasoma reddish-brown. Head as long as wide; frons weakly coriaceus; ocelli distinct; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, longer than lateral ones; mandible tetradentate; antenna with sparse pubescence, scape 2.5 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum weakly coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli complete, as long as parapsidal signum; mesoscuto-mesoscutellar suture not sulcate, foveae oval, mid-sized. Metapectalpropodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina present; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed. Tarsal claw bifid. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma brown; hind wing with four hamuli. Metasoma polished.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Uttarakhand,] Dehra Dun { Dehradun }, 22-I-1913, Shisham Bark coll.

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 120/B and remaining rested on the pin. Pinned: Mesosoma with left metaleg and some coxae and metasoma. On slides : S1 C1—head, cracked; two antennae; one proleg, one metaleg, both without coxae; one forewing; one hind wing. S1 C2—one proleg, one metaleg with detached coxae; one more coxa; one forewing.

Hosts. Unknown.

Genus Formosiepyris Terayama, 2004a

Formosiepyris Terayama, 2004a , 12: 91, 92.

Type species: Formosiepyris marishi Terayama, 2004a by original designation.

Here, we transfer the species E. agraensis ( Kurian, 1955) to Formosiepyris . So, Formosiepyris now has one species described by Kurian.

Figures

FIGURE 32. A–K. Epyris shishami (Kurian, 1955). Holotype. A. Habitus, dorsal view; B. Habitus, lateral view; C. Head, frontal view; D. Mesosoma, dorsal view; E. Antenna; F. Legs, left pro- and right metaleg; G. Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view; H. Forewing; I. Metasoma dorsal view; J. Slide of holotype; K. Labels.