Goniozus chatterjii 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 : 11

2. Goniozus chatterjii Kurian, 1955

Fig. 2 , A–M

Goniozus chatterjii Kurian, 1955 , 4: 113, 115–117, Figs: 176–181.

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

Diagnosis. Female. Length about 2.4 mm. General colour dark brown to black. Head as long as wide; frons coriaceous; ocelli distinct, posterior to supra-ocular line; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin almost angled, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; mandible tetradentate; antenna with dense pubescence, scape 2.3 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than 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 nearly hyaline; forewing with pterostigma dark 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 }, parasitic on Pyralidae larvae defoliating mulberry, U.P. N.C. coll., 28-IV-1949, RRD 628, BCR 226, Chatterji Cage-B.J. 343, Ajabpur . Paratypes: 1♀, with same data as of the holotype .

Type conditions. Holotype completely dissected and mounted on a slide Nº. 125/B. On slide : S1 C1—head (with one antenna) attached with mesosoma; metasoma; another antenna; six legs; two forewings and one hind wing. Paratypes partly dissected on slides Nº. 125/B is not present in NFIC and Nº. 119/B, and remaining rested on the pin. Pinned: Head and mesosoma intact; metasoma pasted on another card on the same pin. Head with right antenna complete, left with basal flagellomeres; mesosoma with all the legs, and both pairs of wings. On slide : S1 C1—mesosoma with one mesoleg and two metalegs; two forewings, two hind wings; one antenna; two legs, one with coxa and femur and another without coxa.

Remarks. Kurian (1955) cited two paratypes, but one with the number 125/B is not present in NFIC, only its labels are remaining.

Hosts. Lepidoptera : Pyralidae larvae on mulberry.

Figures

FIGURE 2. A–M. Goniozus chatterjii Kurian, 1955. A–E, J. Holotype.A. Head, dorsal view; B. Antenna; C. Mesosoma, dorsal view; D. Forewing; E. Legs; (left to right) pro, meso and metaleg; J. Metasoma. F–I, K. Paratype. F. Habitus, dorsal view; G. Head, dorsal view; H. Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view; I. Head and mesosoma, dorsal view; K. Metasoma, dorso-lateral view; L. Two slides, upper of holotype and lower of paratype; M. Labels of paratype.