Paridris subplana (Dodd) Talamas, Elijah J., Awad, Jessica, Tortorici, Francesco & Johnson, Norman F., 2024

Talamas, Elijah J., Awad, Jessica, Tortorici, Francesco & Johnson, Norman F., 2024, Platygastroidea in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History: taxonomic updates and a photographic catalog of type specimens, Insecta Mundi 2024 (30), pp. 1-16 : 4

Paridris subplana (Dodd) new combination

Sceliacantha subplana Dodd, 1920: 336 (original description); Masner, 1965: 91 (type information); Johnson, 1992: 471 (cataloged, type information).

Paridris coorgensis Sharma 1978 , in Saraswat and Sharma, 1978: 26 (original description) new synonym; Mani and Sharma, 1982: 177 (description); Johnson, 1992: 458 (cataloged); Rajmohana, 2007: 57 (keyed).

Paridris circus Kozlov and Lê, 2000 , in Lê, 2000: 65, 66, 336 (original description, keyed); Talamas and Pham, 2017: 228 (junior synonym of Paridris coorgenis Sharma ).

Paridris striaefron s Kozlov and Lê, 2000 in Lê, 2000: 65, 71, 339 (original description, keyed); Talamas and Pham, 2017: 228 (junior synonym of Paridris coorgenis Sharma ).

Material examined. Holotype female ( OUMNH HYME0033 ), Sri Lanka, coll. Thwaites.

Comments. The transverse carina at the anterior margin of T2 ( Figs. 1–3 ) unambiguously places Sceliacantha subplana in the genus Paridris Kieffer (Talamas et al., 2011). We determined that it is conspecific with P. coorgensis using the images and key to species in Talamas and Pham (2017): the metascutellum is glabrous ( Fig. 3 ), the horn of T1 does not have a spine ( Fig. 1 ), and T6 is apically constricted ( Fig. 3 ).

Figures

Figures 1–3. Paridris subplana, holotype female. 1) Head, mesosoma, metasoma, lateral view. 2) Head, mesosoma, metasoma, dorsolateral view. 3) Mesosoma and metasoma, dorsal view.