Epyris mackenziei ( Kurian, 1955 ) Singh & Colombo & Shreevihar & Pandey & Tribull, 2021

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 : 51

29. Epyris mackenziei ( Kurian, 1955) comb. nov.

Fig. 29 , A–I

Chlorepyris mackenziei Kurian, 1955 , 4: 101, 103, 104, Figs: 130–135.

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

Diagnosis. Female. Length about 6.8 mm. General colour black with apex of metasoma reddish-brown. Head wider than long; frons weakly coriaceus; ocelli distinct; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin rounded, longer than lateral ones; mandible tridentate; antenna with sparse pubescence, scape 3.0 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum weakly coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli complete, as long as parapsidal signum; mesoscuto-mesoscutellar suture not sulcate, foveae elliptical, very small. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina present; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed. Tarsal claw bifid. Wings nearly brownish; forewing with pterostigma dark brown; hind wing with three hamuli. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA,] Bengal {Bihar}, Chapra, Mackenzie coll.

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 81/B and remaining rested on the pin. Pinned: Mesosoma, without any wing or leg. On slides : S1 C1—one proleg without coxae; one femur. S1 C2—head with scape, and metasoma. S2 C1—one forewing and one hind wing. S2 C2—one proleg legs without coxa, second leg without coxa and femur; three fragments of antenna—first with scape, pedicel and first flagellomere, second with four flagellomeres and third with apical eight flagellomeres. S3 C1—four coxae.

Remarks. Kurian (1952, p. 103–104) provided a detailed description of the holotype with drawings. We observed the scape without spine-shaped pectens, mesoscuto-scutellar suture with two foveae, not sulcate, and the forewing with the 2r-rs&Rs 2 v long, which supports placing this species in Epyris .

Hosts. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 29. A–I. Epyris mackenziei (Kurian, 1955) comb. nov. Holotype. A. Head, frontal view; B. Parts of antennae; C. Mesosoma, dorsal view; D. Mesosoma, lateral view; E. Forewing; F. Legs, left pro- and right metaleg; G. Metasoma; H. Three slides of holotype; I. Labels.