Holepyris patnae ( Kurian, 1955 ) 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 : 57-60

34. Holepyris patnae ( Kurian, 1955) comb. nov.

Figs 34 , A–L; 51 , K–L.

Epyris patnae Kurian, 1955 , 4: 89, 97, 98, Figs: 107–111.

Type locality: Patna , India (♂ holotype, NFIC-FRI) .

Diagnosis. Male. Length about 2.8 mm. General colour dark reddish-brown to black. Head as long as wide; frons strongly coriaceus; ocelli distinct, posterior to supra-ocular line; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin rounded, as long as lateral ones; mandible tridentate; antenna with sparse pubescence, scape 0.2 × longer than pedicel, pedicel shorter than first flagellomere. Pronotum strongly coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli indistinct, shorter than parapsidal signum; mesoscuto-mesoscutellar suture sulcate, trabeculate, deep. Metapectal-propodeal disc longer than wide; metapostnotal median carina present; first abdominal spiracle laterally placed. Tarsal claw bifid. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma light brown; hind wing with four hamuli. Metasoma polished. Genitalia: Harpe simple, longer than gonostipes in dorsal view, apex rounded, not arched inward; gonostipes wide, not covering aedeagal base; cuspis elongate, apex anterior to apex of harpe; digitus with apex posterior to apex of cuspis, its posterior margin smooth with three teeth; aedeagus subtrapezoidal, its apex posterior to apex of digitus. Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA,] Patna , 26-V-1911, parasitic, C. Nº. 881 . Paratype: 1♂, same data of the holotype .

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 90/B and rest was mounted on the pin. Pinned: Head and Metasoma both separately glued to the pith to which mesosoma is pinned; mesosoma, with both pro- and mesolegs attached. On slides : S1 C1—one forewing and one hind wing. S1 C2—one proleg, one leg without coxa; one antenna complete. Paratype partly dissected on slide Nº. 68/B and remaining rested on the pin. Pinned: mesosoma without any appendages. On slides : S2 C1—one hind wing only. S3 C1—one forewing and one hind wing. S3 C2—two legs, one with coxa; one antenna broken into two.

Remarks: The pinned holotype was in poor shape, with a rusted pin that had damaged the mesosoma, with the remaining parts (head, legs, wings and metasoma) loosely attached and disintegrating. To preserve the type, it was remounted on a card. The metasoma of the holotype was dissected to extract the genitalia, which are mounted under the rectangular cover on S1. The head and metasoma of the paratype are missing.

We detected the clypeus trilobate, eyes mid-sized and glabrous, the dorsal pronotal area with posterior pronotal sulcus foveolate, and with humeral angle not projected, the mesoscuto-scutellar suture sulcate, the metanotum undeveloped medially, the wings are fully developed, the forewings with three closed cells (C 2 c, R 2 c, 1Cu 2 c), and the metapostnotal median carina is long. All of these observations support the placement of this species in Holepyris .

Hosts. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 34. A–L. Holepyris patnae (Kurian, 1955) comb. nov. Holotype. A. Mesosoma, lateral view; B. Habitus after remounting, lateral view; C. Head, frontal view; D. Mesosoma, dorsal view; E, Lower margin of head showing dentition of mandibles; F. Mesosoma, lateral view; G. Antenna; H. Forewing; I. Legs, left pro- and right metaleg; J. Metasoma, dorsal view; K. Three slides, upper two of paratypes and lower of holotype; L. Labels.

FIGURE 51. A–N. Male genitalia. A–B. Goniozus madrassippattanami Kurian, 1955, paratype. A. dorsal view; B. ventral view; C–D. Goniozus salvadorae Kurian, 1954b, paratype; C. dorsal view; D. ventral view; E–F. Goniozus thalasodi Kurian, 1955, holotype; E. dorsal view; F. ventral view; G–H. Epyris indicae (Kurian, 1955), holotype; G. dorsal view; H. ventral view; I–J. Epyris manii Kurian, 1955, holotype; I. dorsal view; J. ventral view; K–L. Holepyris patnae (Kurian, 1955), holotype; K. dorsal view; L. ventral view; M–N. Pristocera agraensis (Kurian, 1955), holotype; M. dorsal view; N. ventral view.