Parastephanellus scitus Elliott, 1919

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 : 43

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.4404146
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E1757B-5A7E-FF99-FF3E-FB4CA70EF941
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Parastephanellus scitus Elliott, 1919
status

Treatment

Parastephanellus scitus Elliott, 1919b , Entomologist, 52, 163.

Type material. Holotype ♂, India: West Bengal, Pusha (22°03’32.6”N & 87°30’16.8”E, 61m), 21.vi.1911, Coll. T.B.F, Repository? (Type specimen missing). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Body length 8.0 mm. Frons strongly arcuate striate; vertex and occiput trans-striate; vertex with two carinae between posterior ocelli; short neck; pronotum trans-striate, extreme base smooth; mesoscutum finely punctate; metapleura coarsely punctate; wings slightly iridescent; hind coxa coarsely striate; hind femora finely trans-striate, ventrally bidentate; first metasomal tergite finely tans-striate, as long as the remaining metasomal segments combined.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. Oriental: India (West Bengal).

Host. Unknown.

Note. The types of this species seems to be lost, therefore, the above mentioned diagnosis is obtained from the original description.