Glyptobasis weelei Kimmins, 1949

Suryanarayanan, Thangalazhi Balakrishnan, Ábrahám, Levente & Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan, 2024, Taxonomic revision of the owlfly genus Glyptobasis McLachlan, 1873 (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae) from India and its adjacent countries, Zootaxa 5486 (3), pp. 388-418 : 412-414

Glyptobasis weelei Kimmins, 1949

( Fig. 19 )

Glyptobasis weelei Kimmins, 1949: 22 .

Glyptobasis weelei Kimmins 1949: 22 :— Ghosh & Sen 1977: 322; Sziráki 1998: 62; Chandra & Sharma 2009: 5.

Type locality: India (Maharashtra) Goregaon .

Type material examined. Holotype male, preserved in NMHUK, was checked.

/ [Holo] Type // Goregaon / India. / Dr. Jayakar / 1905–152. / [on the back side] 21.IX.1902 // Gyptobasis / dentifer Westw. / det. vdWeele // Glyptobasis weelei / ♂ Kim. / D. E. Kimmins det. 1947. // NHMUK 013804010 /. ( Fig. 19A–C ).

Additional figs.

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/20915ec0-65a7-4c69-9b9b-2665139cef4b/1700092800000

Retrieved: 18 Nov 2023 19:02:12 ( UTC)

In Kimmins (1949): INDIA: „Goregaon” (? Gurgaon, Punjab), 21. ix. 1902 (Dr. Jayakar), 2 ♂, 1 ♀ .

Measurements. Male (n=1): forewing, length 28 mm, width 7 mm; hindwing, length 26 mm, width 6 mm.

Diagnostic characters. Vertex and labrum yellow, clypeus yellow to brown. Frons shiny brown. In male, antenna slightly curved with small teeth in basal part. Mesothorax and metathorax with yellow band. Legs reddish brown, Male ectoproct small, rectangular shaped with short caudo-ventral processus in lateral view. Sternite 9 triangular in shape, base slightly narrow than high, tip pointed, subacute. In ventral view, gonocoxite 9 arched and with pair of narrow evenly curved horn-shaped extensions, apices acute, wider at base with small projection directed inwards. Terminalia and genitalia as in Kimmins (1949: fig. 8).

Distribution. India (Maharashtra) ( Fig. 21 ).

Flight period of adult. September ( Kimmins 1949) ( Fig. 22 ).

Remarks. The label on the type specimen indicates the type locality is „Goregaon”, collector „Dr. Jayakar”, date „ 21.IX.1902 ”. Kimmins (1949) was uncertain about the actual location of the type locality and added a bracketed comment as „(?Gurgaon, Punjaub)”. Goregaon may be in Maharashtra, because the collector’s surname Jayakar is common in the state. Since the description, only the type specimens are known, and no new faunistic data have been published. We did not find any additional specimens from India.

Figures

FIGURES 19A–C. Paratype female of Glyptobasis weelei Kimmins, 1949 preserved in the NHMUK, A—Habitus, B—Head in frontal view; C—Head and thorax in lateral view.

FIGURE 21. Distribution map of Glyptobasis species from India and surrounding countries; black circle—G. nigrifrons, red circle—G. cornuta, brown circle—G. nugax, yellow circle—G. weelei, blue circle—G. spinicornis, orange circle—G. fraseri.

FIGURE 22. Flight period of Glyptobasis species from India and surrounding countries.