Odontepyris hypsipylae ( 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 : 37

19. Odontepyris hypsipylae ( Kurian, 1955)

Fig.19 , A–K

Goniozus hypsipylae Kurian, 1955 , 4: 114, 119–121, Figs: 194–199.

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

Diagnosis. Female. Length 5.0 mm. General colour black with apex of metasoma reddish-brown. Head wider than long; frons strongly coriaceous; ocelli distinct, anterior to supra-ocular line; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin rounded, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; antenna with sparse pubescence, scape 1.95× longer than pedicel, pedicel as long as first flagellomere. Pronotum coriaceous; mesonotum as long as pronotal dorsal area; notauli absent. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina present; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed. Tarsal claw bifid. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma light brown, 2R1 2 c cell opened, Rs+M 2 v vein absent, 1M 2 c closed, small and subtriangular. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Uttarakhand,] Dehra Dun {Dehradun}, New Forest, 28-V-1937, parasitic on Hypsipyla robusta , sack-bands Cedrela toona , U.P., R.N. Mathur coll[s]., RRD 159, BCR 222, Cage 17. Paratype: 1♀, same data of holotype.

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 117/B and remaining rested on the card. Pinned: Body complete and intact, glued from left side; head with left scape; mesosoma with both metalegs, left pro- and mesolegs glued; metasoma intact. On slides : S1 C1—one pro and one metaleg; one antenna complete; one forewing and one hind wing. S2 C1—two mesolegs—one with two and another with one apical tarsal segment missing—and one metaleg, all without coxae; antenna with apical flagellomeres missing; one forewing and two hind wings. Paratype partly dissected on slide Nº. 118/B and remaining rested on the pin. Pinned: Complete and intact specimen with right meso- and metalegs missing.

Remarks. The holotype and paratype are mounted on different cards but on the same pin, with Nº. 117. Though the holotype is not specifically marked, we concluded that the top specimen is the holotype, because the body parts on the pin match the mounted parts in the slides and are convergent with the description provided by Kurian. The other, lower specimen is the paratype.

Hosts. Lepidoptera : Pyralidae : Hypsipyla robusta (Moore) .

Figures

FIGURE 19. A–K. Odontepyris hypsipylae (Kurian, 1955). Holotype. A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Mesosoma, dorsal view; D. Mesosoma, lateral view; E. Antenna; F. Legs, left pro- and right metaleg; G. Forewing; H. Posterior part of mesonotum and Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view; I. Metasoma, dorsal view; J. Two slides of holotype; K. Labels.