Sclerodermus mori 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 : 73-75

45. Sclerodermus mori Kurian, 1955

Fig. 45 , A–I

Scleroderma mori Kurian, 1955 , 4: 78, 80, 81, Figs: 53–58.

Type locality: Makum , Lakhimpur, Assam, India (♀ holotype, NFIC-FRI) .

Diagnosis. Female. Length about 2.5 mm. General colour dark reddish-brown. Head as long as wide; frons weakly coriaceus; ocelli distinct; eye glabrous; median clypeal lobe conspicuous, longer than lateral ones; antenna with 13 segments, scape 2.4 × longer than pedicel, pedicel longer than first flagellomere. Pronotum polished; mesonotum shorter than pronotal dorsal area; notauli absent; mesoscuto-mesoscutellar suture sulcate, posterior margin incurved. Metapectal-propodeal disc longer than wide; metapostnotal median carina absent; first abdominal spiracle laterally placed. Wings nearly hyaline; forewing with pterostigma light brown; hind wing with four hamuli. Metasoma polished. Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: [ INDIA, Assam,] Makun, Lakhimpur, ex: Morus laevigata , emerged along with Pilinus { Ptilinus } binodulus Motschulsky (Fam. Anobiidae ), 24-XII-1941, R. R.D. 981, HCR 88, Cage 809, C.F.C. Beeson coll.

Type conditions. Holotype partly dissected on slide and remaining rested on the pin. Head is missing. Pinned: mesosoma and metasoma. On slides : S1 C1—one proleg; two mesolegs; two metalegs—one with tibia and tarsi separated other with coxa separated; one antenna. S2 C1—two forewings; one hind wing; antenna with scape, pedicel and one flagellomere.

Remarks. The holotype is a female, not a male as described by Kurian. The slides of the holotype are also mistakenly labeled as female.

Hosts. Coleoptera : Ptinidae : Ptilinus binodulus Motschulsky.

Figures

FIGURE 45. A–I. Sclerodermus mori Kurian, 1955. Holotype.A. Habitus, dorsal view; B. Habitus, lateral view; C. Mesosoma, dorsal view; D. Mesosoma, lateral view; E. Antenna; F. Legs, top to bottom, pro-, meso- and metaleg; G. Forewing; H. Two slides of holotype; I. Labels.