Goniozus thalasodi 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 : 28-30

15. Goniozus thalasodi Kurian, 1955

Figs 15 , A–L; 51 , E–F.

Goniozus thalasodi Kurian, 1955 , 4: 114, 129, 130, 135, Figs: 232–236.

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

Diagnosis. Male. Length about 1.8 mm. General colour dark reddish-brown to black. Head as long as wide; frons coriaceous; ocelli distinct, posterior to supra-ocular line; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, anterior margin angled, longer than lateral ones; median clypeal carina high in lateral view; antenna with dense pubescence, scape 1.8× longer than pedicel, pedicel as long as first flagellomere. Pronotum coriaceous; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli inconspicuous. Metapectal-propodeal disc wider than long; metapostnotal median carina absent; first abdominal spiracle dorsally placed. Tarsal claw simple. Wings hyaline; forewing with pterostigma light brown, 2R1 2 c cell opened, Rs+M 2 v vein present, 1M 2 c opened. Metasoma polished. Genitalia: Harpe completely divided into dorsal and ventral arms, shorter than gonostipes in dorsal view, dorsal arm with apex rounded, weakly arched inward; gonostipes wide, not covering aedeagal base; apex of cuspis anterior to apex of dorsal arm of harpe; digitus with apex posterior to apex of cuspis, its posterior margin strongly serrated; aedeagus bottle-shaped, its apex posterior to apex of digitus. Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Bihar], Pusa , 17-I-1921, parasitic on Thalasodes vevaria { Thalassodes veraria } on litchi leaves.

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide Nº. 52/B and remaining rested on the pin. Pinned: body complete and intact. Head with right scape and left antenna up to two basal flagellomeres, mesosoma with right pair of wings and right legs. On slide : S1 C1—pro and metalegs complete; two similar legs without coxae and femur; one antenna without scape; one forewing.

Remarks. In the original publication, Kurian (1955) described a female as the holotype, but the description is given under the heading ‘Male’. We dissected the genitalia of the holotype, which is marked by Kurian as ‘male’, and found it to be a male. So, we concluded that the heading of the original description (‘female’) was Kurian’s mistake. Male genitalia and some sclerites of the last segment of the metasoma are mounted on slide S1.

Hosts. Lepidoptera : Geometridae : Thalassodes veraria (Guenée) .

Genus Odontepyris Kieffer, 1904a

Odontepyris Kieffer, 1904a , 1: 378.

Type species: Goniozus transvaalensis Buysson, 1897 by original monotypy.

Kurian (1954b, 1955) described three species of Odontepyris , O. argyriae , O. batrae and O. cirphi . Later, Polaszek & Krombein (1994) synonymized Trissomalus Kieffer, 1905 with Odontepyris and transferred one species ( T. indicus ) described by Kurian (1954b) to Odontepyris . Polaszek & Krombein (1994) also transferred to Odontepyris from Goniozus the species G. hypsipylae , which was originally described by Kurian (1955). So, Odontepyris now has five species described by Kurian.

Figures

FIGURE 15. A–L. Goniozus thalasodi Kurian, 1955. Holotype.A. Habitus, dorsal view; B. Part of head and mesosoma, dorsal view; C. Head, frontal view; D. Head and mesosoma, lateral view; E. Antenna; F. Legs, left proleg and right metaleg; G. Metapectal-propodeal disc, dorsal view; H. Metasoma, lateral view; I. Forewing; J. Habitus, lateral view, before remounting; K. Slide 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.