Goniozus salvadorae ( Kurian, 1954b )

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 : 27-28

13. Goniozus salvadorae ( Kurian, 1954b)

Figs 13 , A–H; 51 , C–D.

Perisierola salvadorae Kurian, 1954b , 3: 433–436, 437, Figs: 34–39.

Type locality: St John’s College , Agra, India (♀ holotype, NFIC-FRI). Diagnosis. Female. Length 2.0 mm–2.5 mm. General colour black. Head wider than long; frons weakly coriaceous; ocelli distinct; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin rounded, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; mandible tetradentate; antenna with dense pubescence, scape 2.0 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli present, weak. Metapectal-propodeal disc as long as wide; metapostnotal median carina absent. Tarsal claw simple. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma light brown, 2 R1 2 c cell opened, Rs+M 2 v vein present, 1M 2 c closed. Metasoma polished. Male. Morphologically similar to female, except for genitalia: Harpe completely divided into dorsal and ventral arms, shorter than gonostipes in dorsal view, dorsal arm with apex rounded, not arched inward; gonostipes wide, covering aedeagal base; apex of cuspis anterior to apex of dorsal arm of harpe; digitus with apex posterior to apex of cuspis, its posterior margin serrated; aedeagus bottle-shaped, its apex aligned to apex of digitus .

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Uttar Pradesh,] Agra, St John’s College , 25-XI-1954, Chandy Kurian coll., bethylid parasites from Psyllid galls on S alvadora persicae . Allotype: 1♂, same data of holotype .

Type conditions. Holotype completely dissected on slide Nº. 148/B. On slides : S1 C1—head (cracked); mesosoma with both prolegs and one forewing; metasoma; two legs complete; one tibia and tarsi. S1 C2—two antennae, one with two distal flagellomeres missing; two legs, one with tarsi and tibia missing; one coxa; one forewing. Allotype male dissected on slide Nº. 149/B. On slides : S2 C1—head with partial antenna; four legs, two without coxae. S2 C2—mesosoma and metasoma intact with two forewings, hind wings and one metaleg.

Remarks: Kurian dissected one female (holotype) and one male (allotype) on two slides. However, on one of the slides, “ Paratype ” is mistakenly written instead of “ Holotype ”. The paratypes (in alcohol) are not present in NFIC.

Hosts. Lepidoptera : Blastobasidae : Holcocera pulverea (Meyrick) .

Figures

FIGURE 13. A–H. Goniozus salvadorae (Kurian, 1954b). Holotype. A. Head, frontal view; B. Mesosoma, dorsal view; C. Antenna; D. Posterior half of mesonotum and Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view; E. Proleg; F. Metasoma, dorsal view; G. Forewing; H. Two slides, lower one is of holotype (mistakenly marked as paratype).

FIGURE 51. A–N. Male genitalia. A–B. Goniozus madrassippattanami Kurian, 1955, paratype. A. dorsal view; B. ventral view; C–D. Goniozus salvadorae Kurian, 1954b, paratype; C. dorsal view; D. ventral view; E–F. Goniozus thalasodi Kurian, 1955, holotype; E. dorsal view; F. ventral view; G–H. Epyris indicae (Kurian, 1955), holotype; G. dorsal view; H. ventral view; I–J. Epyris manii Kurian, 1955, holotype; I. dorsal view; J. ventral view; K–L. Holepyris patnae (Kurian, 1955), holotype; K. dorsal view; L. ventral view; M–N. Pristocera agraensis (Kurian, 1955), holotype; M. dorsal view; N. ventral view.