Foenatopus aequalis Elliott, 1928

Binoy, C., Achterberg, C. Van, Kumar, P. Girish, Santhosh, S. & Sheela, S., 2020, A review of Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea) from India, with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 4838 (1), pp. 1-51 : 6-7

Foenatopus aequalis Elliott, 1928

Foenatopus aequalis Elliott, 1928 , Entomologist, 61 (778), 63.

Type material. Holotype ♀. India: Karnataka, Mysore, Chikkaballapura, Coll. Campbell, vii.1918 / (Type specimen missing).

Diagnosis. Body length 13.5 mm; ovipositor sheath length 12 mm. Frons moderately trans-striate, impressed in upper half; vertex with three strong carinae; scape long, as long as cheeks; pronotum smooth and shining, semi annular with apical transverse line of punctures; mesoscutum irregularly punctate, usual rows of punctures obsolete; scutellum large, central lobe smooth, lateral lobes punctate; metapleura medially reticulate punctate; hind coxa trans-striate, basally more coarsely; hind femora finely trans-aciculate, bidentate; first metasomal segment trans-striate, white banded, shorter than rest of remaining metasomal segments; ovipositor sheath 1.3× length of metasoma, with a subapical pale band.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Oriental: India (Karnataka).

Host. Unknown.

Note. The type of this species is missing, therefore, the above mentioned diagnosis is obtained from the original description. We have been unable to associate any extant specimens with this species.