Goniozus ahmeadi Kurian, 1955

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 : 8

1. Goniozus ahmeadi Kurian, 1955

Fig. 1 , A–K

Goniozus ahmeadi Kurian, 1955 , 4: 114, 115, Figs: 171–175.

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

Diagnosis. Female. Length about 4.0 mm. General colour dark reddish-brown. Head as long as wide; frons polished; ocelli distinct, posterior to supra-ocular line; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin rounded, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; mandible tetradentate; antenna with dense pubescence, scape 3.0 × longer than pedicel, pedicel as long as first flagellomere. Pronotum weakly coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli complete, longer than parapsidal signum.Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina anteriorly; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed. Tarsal claw simple. Wings nearly hyaline; forewing with pterostigma dark brown, 2R1 2 c cell opened, Rs+M 2 v vein present, 1M 2 c opened; hind wing with four hamuli. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Orissa,] Cuttack, C.S. 223. From pupa in burrows of stem borer. M. Ahmed coll., 18-IX-1937, Imperial Entomologist 1938, Delhi, 869”.

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 26/B and remaining rested on the pin. Pinned: Head and mesosoma intact; metasoma pasted on a different card, but on the same pin. Head with right antenna; mesosoma with right mesoleg and metaleg, and left mesocoxa. On slides : S1 C1—one leg. S1 C2—two separated coxae and one leg without coxa. S2 C1—one antenna; one forewing; one leg without coxa. S2 C2—one forewing and one hind wing.

Remarks. Kurian (1955) mentioned the holotype, both on the slides and description, as male, but dissection of the metasoma confirmed it as female. Dissected ovipositor and last tergites of the holotype are mounted on a small square cover slip on S1.

Hosts. Lepidoptera : pupa in stem borer.

Figures

FIGURE 1. A–K. Goniozus ahmeadi Kurian, 1955. Holotype. A. Head and mesosoma, lateral view; B. Head, dorsal view; C. Head and pronotum, dorso-lateral view; D. Mesosoma, dorsal view; E. Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view; F. Antenna; G. Metasoma, dorso-lateral view; H. Forewing; I. Proleg; J. Two slides of holotype; K. Labels.