Tiphia (Tiphia) capillata Allen & Jaynes, 1930

Hanima, Raveendran K. P., Kumar, Girish & Hegde, Vishwanath D., 2022, Additions to the knowledge on the genus Tiphia Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Tiphiinae) from India with the description of ten new species, Zootaxa 5204 (1), pp. 1-106 : 19

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5204.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:98D6F051-635F-4611-8C84-A0EAF092C4DE

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7301320

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/34314512-DB7A-4F03-FF07-B151FC24F2ED

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scientific name

Tiphia (Tiphia) capillata Allen & Jaynes, 1930
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5. Tiphia (Tiphia) capillata Allen & Jaynes, 1930

( Figs 48–61 View FIGURES 48–51 View FIGURES 52–61 )

Tiphia capillata Allen & Jaynes, 1930: 47 . Holotype, ♀, Shillong , Meghalaya, India (USNM).

Tiphia (Tiphia) capillata ; Allen, 1975: 22–24.

Material examined. 1♀, INDIA: Kerala, Wayanad district, Muthanga (11°40′17″N & 76°22′06″E, 848 m), 13.x.2011, Coll. P. Girish Kumar, ( ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.17758 GoogleMaps ; 1♀, Thiruvananthapuram district, Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary, Ponmudi , Seethatheertham (8°45′34″N & 77°07′01″E, 923 m), 5.xii.2021, Coll. P. Girish Kumar & Party, ( ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC /IR/INV.19729 GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Body length 5.2 mm. Mandible without preapical denticle ( Fig. 54 View FIGURES 52–61 ); dorsal side of pronotum without transverse carina ( Fig. 56 View FIGURES 52–61 ); lateral side of pronotum without transdiscal groove ( Fig. 57 View FIGURES 52–61 ); posterior side of propodeum without median carina; clypeus, antennal segments, femora, tibiae and tarsi orange brown; tegula translucent orange; marginal cell of fore wing with outwardly directed straight spur ( Fig. 59 View FIGURES 52–61 ); hind basitarsus without groove.

Variations. The specimens examined here differ in the following characters compared to the description of Allen (1975). Mandible without preapical denticle and dorsal side of pronotum without transverse carina in the specimens examined, while mandible with minute, acute preapical denticle and dorsal pronotum with complete transverse carina according to Allen.

Distribution. India: Meghalaya, Karnataka, Kerala (new record).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Tiphiidae

Genus

Tiphia

Loc

Tiphia (Tiphia) capillata Allen & Jaynes, 1930

Hanima, Raveendran K. P., Kumar, Girish & Hegde, Vishwanath D. 2022
2022
Loc

Tiphia (Tiphia) capillata

Allen, H. W. 1975: 22
1975
Loc

Tiphia capillata

Allen, H. W. & Jaynes, H. A. 1930: 47
1930
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