Taeniogonalos kerala ( Ayyar, 1919 )

Binoy, C., van Achterberg, Cornelis, Polaszek, Andrew, Kumar, P. Girish & Santhosh, S., 2022, A review of Taeniogonalos (Hymenoptera: Trigonalyidae) from India with the description of two new species, Journal of Natural History 56 (21 - 24), pp. 1153-1185 : 1169

Taeniogonalos kerala ( Ayyar, 1919)

( Figures 8a–d , 9a–e and 10a–f )

Poecilogonalos kerala Ayyar, 1919: 472 [ India: Kerala, Santhanathode, Western Ghats, Malabar (Wayanad) district , coll. T.V. Ramakrishna Ayyar ; 7 October 1917]. (see Materials and methods for holotype deposition) (transferred to Taeniogonalos by Carmean and Kimsey 1998: 67).

Poecilogonalos henicospili Rohwer, 1929: 65 (transferred to Taeniogonalos by Carmean and Kimsey 1998: 68). syn. nov.

Type material

Holotype of T. henicospili , ♀ ( Figures 8a–d ), India: Assam, Jorhat, March 1927, coll. C.P. Clausen, ex. cocoons of Henicospilus rufus Tosq. , no. 2084 (metasoma missing) ( USNM) Type No. 40978, USNMENT 01545589.

Additional material examined

♀, India: Kerala, Ernakulam district, Thattekad Bird Sanctuary (10.129°N, 76.6877°E; alt. 450 m), 5 February 2017, coll . P . Girish Kumar , ( ZSIK) Regd . No . ZSI/ WGRC /IR/INV.17489.

Diagnosis

Scutellum bicoloured and middle lobe of mesoscutum tricoloured ( Figures 8c and 10b ); outer side of supra-antennal elevations oblique and elevations 0.4× as long as scape; occipital carina marked; head densely rugose-punctate, interspaces smooth and shiny, punctures fade posteriorly towards occiput and ventrally towards temple; temple dorsally largely smooth except for scattered punctures near the outer eye margin ( Figures 8b and 9c–e ); head distinctly wide in dorsal view; posterior margin of second metasomal sternite straight, armature absent.

Figures

Figures 8(a–d). Taeniogonalos henicospili (Rohwer, 1929) (= T. kerala (Ayyar)) (metasoma broken). Holotype ♀ a. Habitus, lateral view, scientific illustration (from Clausen 1929) in inset; b. Head, dorsal view; c. Habitus, dorsal view; d. Type labels.

Figures 9(a–e). Taeniogonalos kerala (Ayyar, 1919) ♀. a. Habitus, lateral view; b. Antenna; c. Head, lateral view; d. Head, dorsal view; e. Head, frontal view.

Figures 10(a–f). Taeniogonalos kerala (Ayyar, 1919) ♀. a. Mesosoma, lateral view; b. Mesosoma, dorsal view; c. Fore wing; d. Metasoma, lateral view; e. Metasomal tergites, dorsal view; f. Metasomal sternites, ventral view.