Sclerodermus hardwickiae 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 : 73

44. Sclerodermus hardwickiae Kurian, 1955

Fig. 44 , A–E

Scleroderma hardwickiae Kurian, 1955 , 4: 78–80, Fig: 52.

Type locality: Timberyard , Tamil Nadu, India (♀ holotype, NFIC-FRI) .

Diagnosis. Female. Length about 2.4 mm. General colour light brown. Head as long as wide; frons polished; ocelli absent; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, longer than lateral ones; mandible bidentate; antenna with 13 segments, scape 2.0 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum polished; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli absent; mesoscuto-mesoscutellar suture absent. Metapectal-propodeal disc longer than wide; metapostnotal median carina absent. Apterous. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Tamil Nadu,] Madras, Timberyard, ex: Hardwickia pinnata , parasitic on Lycidae , 13-X-1941, C.F.C. Beeson, S.F.B. 1460, RRD 490, BCR 136, Cage 606.

Type conditions. Holotype completely dissected on slide Nº. 111/B. On slide : S1 C1—head; antenna without apical segment; mesosoma with right coxae attached, pronotum and mesoscutum separated; metasoma; three coxae and some fragments of legs.

Hosts. Coleoptera : Lycidae .

Figures

FIGURE 44. A–E. Sclerodermus hardwickiae Kurian, 1955. Holotype.A. Head, frontal view; B. Mesosoma parts, dorsal view; C. Antenna; D. Metasoma, dorsal view. E. One slide of holotype.