Odontepyris cirphi 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 : 34

18. Odontepyris cirphi Kurian, 1955

Fig. 18 , A–J

Odontepyris cirphi Kurian, 1955 , 4: 130, 132, 133, Figs: 243–248.

Type locality: Pusa , Bihar, India (♀ holotype, NFIC-FRI) .

Diagnosis. Female. Length about 4.0 mm. General colour black. Head wider than long; frons strongly coriaceous; ocelli distinct, crossing to supra-ocular line; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin angled, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; mandible tridentate; antenna with sparse pubescence, scape 2.0× longer than pedicel, pedicel shorter than first flagellomere.Pronotum coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli absent. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina present, weak; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed. Tarsal claw bifid. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma brown, 2R1 2 c cell opened, Rs+M 2 v vein absent, 1M 2 c closed, small and oval. Metasoma lost. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Bihar], Pusa , 17-VII-1914, T.B.F., parasitising Cirphis larvae.

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 69/B and remaining rested on the pin. Pinned: Head, without antennae, and mesosoma with left hind wing, left proleg and mesocoxa, right meso- and metacoxae). On slides : S1 C1—one forewing and one hind wing. S1 C2—two legs without coxae; two coxae; one antenna.

Remarks. The metasoma of the holotype is missing.

Hosts. Lepidoptera : Noctuidae : Cirphis sp.

Figures

FIGURE 18. A–J. Odontepyris cirphi Kurian, 1955. Holotype. A. Head and mesosoma, lateral view; B. Head and mesosoma, dorsal view; C. Mesosoma, dorsal view; D. Antenna; E. Head, frontal view; F. Posterior part of mesonotum and Metapectalpropodeal disc, dorsal view; G. Forewing; H. Legs, left, pro- and right metaleg; I. Slide of holotype; J. Labels.