Sulcomesitius duni ( 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 : 65

39. Sulcomesitius duni ( Kurian, 1955)

Fig. 39 , A–H

Mesitius duni Kurian, 1955 , 4: 83, 85, 86, Figs: 70–75.

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

Diagnosis. Female. Length about 5.5 mm. General colour black with apex of metasoma reddish-brown. Head as long as wide; frons coriaceus; ocelli distinct; eye weakly setose; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin almost rounded, longer than lateral ones; mandible tetradentate; antenna with sparse pubescence, scape 2.5 × longer than pedicel, pedicel shorter than first flagellomere. Pronotum strongly coriaceous; mesonotum as long as pronotal dorsal area; notauli complete, longer than parapsidal signum; mesoscuto-mesoscutellar suture sulcate. Metapectalpropodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina present; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed; posterior propodeal projection spine-shaped. Tarsal claw bifid. Wings nearly hyaline; forewing with pterostigma brown; hind wing with three hamuli. Metasoma polished; second abdominal segment distinctly longer than distal ones. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Uttarakhand,] Dehra Dun {Dehradun}, Shisham bark, 22-I-1913.

Type conditions. Holotype completely dissected on slide Nº. 122/B. On slides : S1 C1—one complete antenna; forewing; one proleg in three fragments—femur, tibia and basal four tarsal segments; mesoleg without coxa and pretarsal segment; metaleg in three fragments—coxa, femur and tibia and tarsi. S1 C2—fragment of palpi; mandible; distal part of hind wing. S2 C1—head and with attached anterior part of mesosoma; posterior part of mesosoma; metasoma.

Remarks. The holotype is a female and not a male as labeled. Móczar (1970, p. 424) also observed this mistake.

Hosts. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 39. A–H. Sulcomesitius duni Kurian, 1955. Holotype. A. Head and mesosoma, dorso-lateral view; B. Antenna; C. Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view; D. Legs, left pro- and right metaleg; E. Metasoma, lateral view; F. Mandible; G. Forewing; H. Two slides of holotype.