Omalus timidus ( Nurse, 1902 )

Rosa, Paolo, Aswathi, Pokkattu Gopi & Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan, 2021, An annotated and illustrated checklist of the Indian cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), Zootaxa 4929 (1), pp. 1-100 : 21-22

Omalus timidus ( Nurse, 1902)

( Figs 15 A–15F)

Ellampus timidus Nurse, 1902: 305 . Lectotype ♂ designated by Kimsey 1986: 107; Pakistan: Peshin (NHMUK). Bingham 1908: 347 (Assam).

Omalus (Philoctetes) timidus: Jonathan et al. 1977: 85 ( India: Delhi).

Omalus timidus: Rosa et al. 2015c: 68 (key), 73 (descr.), 74 (diagn., fig. 4).

Distribution. India (Assam; Delhi). Palaearctic: Pakistan ( Rosa et al. 2015c). Oriental: China (Guandong) ( Rosa et al. 2014).

Remarks. Kimsey & Bohart (1991) transferred Ellampus timidus in the genus Holophris Mocsáry, 1890 . Rosa et al. (2015c) transferred this species in the genus Omalus Panzer, 1801 . du Buysson (in Nurse 1904) synonymised Omalus timidus with Pseudomalus hypocrita ( du Buysson, 1893) . However, based on type specimens, these two species belong to separate genera.

Figures

FIGURE 15. Omalus timidus (Nurse, 1902), paralectotype, female. A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Head, frontal view. C. Mesosoma, dorsal view. D. Head and mesosoma, dorsal view. E. Metasoma, lateral view. F. Metasoma, dorso-lateral view. Scale bars 1.0 mm.