Chlorepyris pusana 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 : 40-41

22. Chlorepyris pusana Kurian, 1955

Fig. 22 , A–F

Chlorepyris pusana Kurian, 1955 , 4: 101, 104, 105, Figs: 136–140.

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

Diagnosis. Female. Length 2.6 mm. General colour black. Head longer than wide; frons coriaceus; ocelli distinct; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, longer than lateral ones; antenna with dense pubescence, scape 1.4 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum weakly coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli complete, weak, longer than parapsidal signum; mesoscuto-mesoscutellar suture sulcate, smooth. Metapectal-propodeal disc as long as wide; metapostnotal median carina present. Tarsal claw bifid. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma dark brown. Metasoma lost. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Bihar,] Pusa , 5-V-1922, C. S. Misra coll.

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 99/B and rest of the body which was pinned is missing, only its labels are present. On slides : S1 C1—head with complete antenna. S2 C1—one antenna without scape; two prolegs—one without coxa, one meso and one metaleg all without coxae; one forewing.

Remarks. The pinned body parts of holotype (mesosoma and metasoma) are missing.

Hosts. Unknown.

Genus Epyris Westwood, 1832

Epyris Westwood, 1832 , 1: 129.

Type species: Epyris niger Westwood, 1832 by original monotypy.

Kurian (1955) described five species of Epyris , E. agrensis , E. delhiensis , E. duttai , E. manii and E. patnae . Azevedo et al. (2018) synonymized Neodisepyris Kurian, 1955 with Epyris and transferred all five species originally described by Kurian (1955) under Neodisepyris ( N. bombayensis , N. duni , N. indicae , N. pusae and N. shishami ) to Epyris . Azevedo et al. (2018) also synonymized Rhabdepyris Kieffer, 1904c with Epyris and transferred one species ( R. agraensis ) described by Kurian (1955) to Epyris . Here, we transfer the species E. agraensis ( Kurian, 1955) to Formosiepyris Terayama, 2004a and E. patnae Kurian 1955 to Holepyris . The species Chlorepyris mackenziei is transferred here to Epyris . So, Epyris now has ten species described by Kurian.

Figures

FIGURE 22.A–F. Chlorepyris pusana Kurian, 1955. Holotype.A. Head in frontal view; B. Antenna; C. Legs, left pro- and right mesoleg; D. Forewing; E. Two slides of holotype; F. Labels.