Methocha (Dryinopsis) taprobane Krombein, 1982

Hanima, R. K. P., Kumar, P. G. & Hegde, V. D., 2022, New record of Methocha (Dryinopsis) taprobane Krombein, 1982 (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae, Methochinae) from India, Far Eastern Entomologist 450, pp. 12-14 : 14

Methocha (Dryinopsis) taprobane Krombein, 1982

Figs 1–9

Methocha (Dryinopsis) taprobane Krombein, 1982: 87 , 89, 95, ♂ ♀ [holotype – ♂, Sri

Lanka: North Western Province, Puttalam district, Pannika Villu, Wilpattu National Park

(NMNH)].

MATERIAL EXAMINED. India: Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram District, Agasthyamalai Biosphere Reserve, Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary , Peppara dam site, 8°37'19.3008'' N ,

77°8'14.1432'' E, altitude 98 m, 4.XII 2021, 1 ♀, leg. P. Girish Kumar & Party, ZSIK Regd .

No. ZSI/ WGRC /I. R.-INV.19646.

DIAGNOSIS. FEMALE. Vestiture silvery to cinereous; basal flagellar segments black,

legs black with tarsal joints light brown and two last metasomal segments black with apical margins light brown; head 2.2–2.4 times as wide as least interocular distance; postocellar line

1.3 times lateral ocellar line and 0.7 times ocellocular distance.

DISTRIBUTION. India (new record): Kerala, Sri Lanka.

Figures

Figs 1–9. Methocha (Dryinopsis) taprobane Krombein, female. 1 – habitus, lateral view; 2 – same, dorsal view; 3 – head and mesosoma, lateral view; 4 – mesosoma, dorsal view; 5 – antennae; 6 – metasoma, dorsal view; 7 same, lateral view; 8 – head, frontal view; 9 – clypeus.