Trachepyris sanctipauli ( Kurian, 1954b ) Singh & Colombo & Shreevihar & Pandey & Tribull, 2021

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 : 63

37. Trachepyris sanctipauli ( Kurian, 1954b) comb. nov.

Fig. 37 , A–L

Chlorepyris sanctipauli Kurian, 1954b , 3: 423–426, Figs: 14–18.

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

Diagnosis. Female. Length about 4.5 mm. General colour black. Head as long as wide; frons polished; ocelli distinct, posterior to supra-ocular line; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin almost straight, longer than lateral ones; mandible unidentate, apex downward, ventral laminar expansion present; antenna with spine-shaped pubescence, scape 2.3 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum polished; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli complete, longer than parapsidal signum; mesoscutomesoscutellar suture not sulcate, foveae oval, very small. Metapectal-propodeal disc as long as wide; metapostnotal median carina present; first abdominal spiracle laterally placed. Protibia and metatibia with long spines; tarsal claw bifid. Wings nearly hyaline; forewing with pterostigma brown, 2r-rs&Rs 2 v short; hind wing with five hamuli. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Uttar Pradesh,] Agra, St. Paul’s Church , 22-VII-1951, Chandy Kurian coll.

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 142/B and remaining rested on the pin. Pinned: Complete body. On slides : S1 C1—one metaleg without coxa and femur. S2 C1—one forewing; one hind wing. S2 C2—one proleg; one metaleg; both legs without coxae; one antenna.

Remarks. Kurian (1954b, p. 423–426) provided a detailed description of the holotype with drawings. We observed the mandibles with apex downward, ventral margins with laminar expansion, and the mesoscuto-scutellar suture with two foveae, not sulcate, which support the placement of this species in Trachepyris . One of the holotype slides is mistakenly marked as ‘male’.

Hosts. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 37. A–L. Trachepyris sanctipauli (Kurian, 1955) comb. nov. Holotype. A. Habitus, dorsal view; B. Habitus, lateral view; C. Head, frontal view; D. Head, lateral view; E. Antenna; F. Pronotum, dorsal view; G. Legs, left pro- and right metaleg; H. Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view; I. Metapectal-propodeal disc, lateral view; J. Forewing; K. Two slides of holotype; L. Labels.