Foenatopus frontilinea ( Morley, 1917 )

Binoy, C., Achterberg, C. Van, Kumar, P. Girish, Santhosh, S. & Sheela, S., 2020, A review of Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea) from India, with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 4838 (1), pp. 1-51 : 13

Foenatopus frontilinea ( Morley, 1917)

( Fig. 21 & 22 )

Diastephanus frontilinea Morley, 1917 , Entomologist, 50, 109.

Type material. Holotype ♀, India: Assam-Eastern Bengal border, 20.vi.1905, Coll.? from PUSA collection, ( NHM).

Diagnosis. Body length 10.5 mm, ovipositor sheath length 9 mm. Frons faintly reticulate, a longitudinal line on frons and head; vertex longitudinally aciculate, two carinae between the lateral ocelli; occiput finely and closely trans-aciculate; pronotum multicarinate, semi-annular, smooth and shiny; mesoscutum smooth and shiny, sparsely punctate; metapleuron smooth and subaciculate; scutellum smooth and shiny with three rows of punctures on either side; propodeum coriaceous between very largely and partly confluent pits; hind coxa trans-striate; hind-femora alutaceous with two teeth on ventral margin with few denticles; first metasomal tergite trans-aciculate, longer than combined remaining segments; ovipositor sheath longer than metasoma, with a subapical pale ivory band.

Male. Unknown.

Distribution. Oriental: India-Bangladesh border.

Host. Unknown.

Note. The types are in very bad condition, therefore, the above mentioned diagnosis is obtained from the original description.

Figures

FIGURES 21–22. Habitus of holotype. ♀ Foenatopus frontilinea (Morley, 1917). 21. Habitus, lateral view; 22. Head and mesosoma, dorsal view.