Goniozus pulveriae ( Kurian, 1954b )

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 : 25

12. Goniozus pulveriae ( Kurian, 1954b)

Fig.12 , A–J

Perisierola pulveriae Kurian, 1954b , 3: 429–433, 436, Figs: 24–33.

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

Diagnosis. Female. Length about 3.0 mm. General colour brownish to black. Head longer than wide; frons coriaceous; ocelli distinct; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin angled, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; antenna with dense pubescence, scape 2.0 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum weakly coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli present, weak. Metapectal-propodeal disc as long as wide; metapostnotal median carina absent; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed. Tarsal claw simple. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma light brown, 2R1 2 c cell opened, Rs+M 2 v vein present, 1M 2 c closed. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Uttarakhand,] Dehra Dun {Dehradun}, 10-I-1938, P.M. Glover [coll.], Ex. Holcocera pulverea , predator on Tachardia lacca .

Type conditions. Holotype completely dissected on slide Nº. 143/B. On slides : S1 C1—body complete and intact—head with left antenna, mesosoma with two metalegs and metasoma. S2 C1—one antenna; two forewings and one hind wing; one foreleg and one legs, one with the separated coxa. Allotype body parts are missing, and slides are not present in NFIC.

Hosts. Lepidoptera : Blastobasidae : Holcocera pulverea (Meyrick) .

Remarks: In the description it is mentioned that the holotype and allotype are partially dissected with the remaining parts rested on the pin. However, the slides marked as ‘holotype’ have most of the body parts except some legs as per details given above. Labels with the collection details for the holotype are pinned. Similarly, the labels of collection details for the allotype are also pinned without any body parts. Allotype slides are not present in NFIC. Apart from these, four more non-type specimens from the series are present in NFIC, and one of them is photographed.

Figures

FIGURE 12.A–J. Goniozus pulveriae (Kurian, 1954b). Holotype.A. Habitus, dorsal view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Mesosoma, dorsal view; D. Posterior half of mesonotum and Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view; E. Antenna; F. Forewing; G. Legs, left proleg and right metaleg; H. Two slides of holotype; J. Labels of paratype; J. Labels of holotype.