Goniozus mori 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 : 19

8. Goniozus mori Kurian, 1955

Fig. 8 , A–I

Goniozus mori Kurian, 1955 , 4: 114, 125, 126, Figs: 216–221.

Type locality: New Forest , Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India (♀ holotype, NFIC-FRI) .

Diagnosis. Female. Length about 2.8 mm. General colour dark reddish-brown. Head as long as wide; frons coriaceous; ocelli distinct, posterior to supra-ocular line; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin rounded, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; mandible tetradentate; antenna with sparse pubescence, scape 1.5 × longer than pedicel, pedicel shorter than first flagellomere. Pronotum coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli absent. Metapectal-propodeal disc as long as wide; metapostnotal median carina absent; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed. Tarsal claw bifid. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma light brown, 2R1 2 c cell opened, Rs+M 2 v vein present, 1M 2 c opened. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Uttarakhand,] Dehra Dun {Dehradun}, New Forest , B.M. Bhatia coll., 19-V-1940, cocoon collected on Morus indica leaves, D-45.

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected and mounted on slide Nº. 126/B and remaining rested on the pin. Metasoma is missing. Pinned: head intact, with left antenna, mesosoma intact, with left metaleg and right pair of wings. On slides : S1 C1—six legs; one antenna; two forewings (one of these, probably belongs to the paratype), one hind wing.

Remarks: Holotype metasoma missing. Paratype is not present in NFIC.

Hosts. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 8. A–I. Goniozus mori Kurian, 1955. Holotype.A. Antenna; B. Legs, upper pro- and lower meta leg; C. Forewing; D. Head and mesosoma, lateral view; E. Head frontal view; F. Head and part of pronotum, in lateral view; G. Mesosoma, dorsal view; H. slide; I. Labels.