Goniozus madrassippattanami 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 : 16

6. Goniozus madrassippattanami Kurian, 1955

Figs 6 , A–M; 51 , A–B.

Goniozus madrassippattanami Kurian, 1955 , 4: 114, 122, 123, Figs: 206–210.

Type locality: Nilambur , Tamil Nadu, India (♀ holotype, NFIC-FRI) .

Diagnosis. Female. Length 2.0 mm–2.6 mm. General colour dark reddish-brown to black. Head as long as wide; frons polished; ocelli distinct; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin rounded, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; antenna with sparse pubescence, scape 1.5 × longer than pedicel, pedicel as long as first flagellomere. Pronotum weakly coriaceous; mesonotum longer than pronotal dorsal area; notauli inconspicuous. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina absent; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed. Tarsal claw simple. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma dark brown, 2R1 2 c cell opened, Rs+M 2 v vein present, 1M 2 c opened. 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, weakly arched inward; gonostipes wide, covering aedeagal base; apex of cuspis anterior to apex of dorsal arm of harpe; digitus with apex aligned to apex of cuspis, its posterior margin smooth; aedeagus bottle-shaped, its apex aligned to apex of digitus.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Kerala,] Nilambur [Tamil Nadu,] Madras, A.H. Khan [coll.], 1939, parasitic on Hapalia machaeralis, RRD 598 . Paratype: ♂, same data of holotype .

Type conditions. Holotype completely dissected on slide Nº. 123/B. On slide : S1 C1—two legs, one without coxae; distal half of forewing; one antenna complete. S1 C2—one forewing and one hind wing. S2 C1—parts of six legs; two forewings. S2 C2—head; mesosoma; metasoma; one hind wing; one proleg without coxa and tarsi; one leg without coxae and femur. Paratypes on two cards on a pin with labels 123/B. Pinned: head missing; mesosoma with both pairs of wings; one leg and some coxae. Metasoma is mounted on a card on another pin, with the label “123/B, paratype ”. On slide : S1 C3—genitalia was dissected out from the card mounted meatasoma and mounted under a rectangular coverslip.

Remarks. Kurian (1955) described the holotype as male, and labeled the slides of the holotype also as male, but the dissection of the metasoma confirmed it as female. The dissected ovipositor and last tergites of the holotype are mounted on a small recangular cover slip on S1.

Hosts. Lepidoptera : Hyblaeidae : Hapalia machaeralis (Walker) .

Figures

FIGURE 6. A–M. Goniozus madrassippattanami Kurian, 1955. A–F. Holotype. A. Head, frontal view; B. Mesosoma, dorsal view; C. Antenna; D. Forewing; E. Legs (left to right) pro and metalegs; F. Metasoma, dorsal view. G–K. Paratype.G. Mesosoma with forewing, lateral view; H. Mesosoma, dorsal view; I. Mesosoma, lateral view; J. Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view; K. Metasoma, dorso-lateral view. L. Two slides of holotype. M. Labels of 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.