Foenatopus idukkiensis Sureshan and Narendran, 2013

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 : 14-15

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CBB2E456-150B-4D8F-AC3E-4F6D13217C6C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4404070

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E1757B-5A59-FFBD-FF3E-FB23A3E6FAD7

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scientific name

Foenatopus idukkiensis Sureshan and Narendran, 2013
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Foenatopus idukkiensis Sureshan and Narendran, 2013

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Foenatopus idukkiensis Sureshan and Narendran, 2013 , J. Threat. Taxa., 5(9), 4387–4389.

Type material. Holotype ♀, mounted on triangular card, India: Kerala, Idukki district, Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Kuttar (10°30’ N & 77°20’ E, 450 m), 04.iv.2012, Coll. P.M. Sureshan, ( ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRC /IR/INV.2346. Ex. Dead wood infested with beetles GoogleMaps . Paratypes 2♂ ZSI/ WGRC /IR/INV/2348(i–ii). Examined .

Additional material examined: 1♀, India: West Bengal, N-24 Parganas district, Salt Lake (22°35’04.59”N & 88°25’02.08”E, Alt 8 m), 3.xii.2011, Coll. O. Biswas, ( ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRC /IR/INV.13602 GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Body length 11.0 mm, ovipositor sheath length 10.0 mm. Frons transversely striate to carinate; vertex with four complete and strong carinae followed by distinct transverse striae; ocellar area with longitudinal carinae; neck anteriorly deeply emarginate; pronotum trans carinate anteriorly turning finely reticulate posteriorly; mesoscutum anteriorly finely and transversely reticulate and with broad transverse band of pits posteriorly; scutellum finely alutaceous with sparse and scattered pits; metapleura carinate with deep pits; propodeum with broad shallow pits, interstices reticulate; hind coxa strongly annulate; hind femora bidentate with few denticles on the ventral side; first metasomal tergite uniformly annulate carinate, longer than combined length of remaining segments; ovipositor sheath longer than metasoma, with a subapical pale ivory ring.

Male. Body length 9.0 mm. Antenna with fewer antennomeres than in females (30:26); otherwise resembles female.

Distribution. Oriental: India (Kerala, West Bengal (present record)).

Host. Unknown, presumably on wood boring beetles (reared from dead wood with unknown beetle infestation).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Stephanidae

Genus

Foenatopus

Loc

Foenatopus idukkiensis Sureshan and Narendran, 2013

Binoy, C., Achterberg, C. Van, Kumar, P. Girish, Santhosh, S. & Sheela, S. 2020
2020
Loc

Foenatopus idukkiensis

Sureshan and Narendran 2013
2013
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