Tiphia (Tiphia) hirsuta Smith 1855
- Dataset
- Additions to the knowledge on the genus Tiphia Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae: Tiphiinae) from India with the description of ten new species
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Tiphiidae
- genus
- Tiphia
- species
- Tiphia hirsuta
description
(Figs 206 – 218)
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Body length 7.9 – 10.2 mm. Mandible without preapical denticle (Fig. 208); clypeus, gena and mesopleuron masked with coarse white setae (Figs 208, 211); lateral side of pronotum with distinct transdiscal groove (Fig. 211); fore wing with marginal cell of fore wing slightly longer than second cubital cell in apical extension (Fig. 213); Gs 5 with lateral denticle; Gs 6 with tuft of fine setae (Fig. 215); Gt 1 without anterior transverse carina (Fig. 214); tegula (Fig. 210), posterior margin of pronotum (Fig. 210), underside of antennae (Fig. 212), clypeus (Fig. 208), tarsi of fore and mid legs and tibia of fore leg yellowish orange (Figs 206, 209). Genitalia. Paramere with a stalk and rounded flat apex covered with setae; digitus rounded apically; cuspis slender and beak-like apically; aedeagus folded completely (Figs 216 – 218). Female. Unknown.
distribution
Distribution. India: Gujarat (new record), Kerala (new record), Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Nepal.
materials_examined
Material examined. 1 ♂, INDIA: Gujarat, Surat, Moti Cher (21 ° 14 ′ 38 ″ N & 73 ° 21 ′ 26 ″ E, 47 m), 27. vii. 1993, Coll. S. K. Gupta, (ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC / IR / INV. 13167; 1 ♂, Kerala, Kollam district, Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary, Kulathupuzha (8 ° 54 ′ 35 ″ N & 77 ° 03 ′ 37 ″ E, 143 m), 9. xii. 2021, Coll. P. Girish Kumar & Party, (ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC / IR / INV. 19738. 7 ♂, Uttarakhand, Dehradun district, Asan Barrage Bird Sanctuary (30 ° 26 ′ 13 ″ N & 77 ° 39 ′ 55 ″ E, 399 m), 17. vii. 2019, Coll. P. Girish Kumar, (ZSIK) Regd. Nos. ZSI / WGRC / IR / INV. 13108 & 18176 – 18181; 2 ♂, Uttarkhashi district, Barkot (30 ° 48 ′ 35 ″ N & 78 ° 12 ′ 33 ″ E, 1292 m), 23. vi. 2008, Coll. Sudhir Singh, (ZSIK) Regd. Nos. ZSI / WGRC / IR / INV. 13166, 18185; 2 ♂, Dehradun district, ZSI Campus (30 ° 20 ′ 46 ″ N & 78 ° 00 ′ 52 ″ E, 682 m), 17. vii. 2019, 18. vii. 2019, Coll. P. Girish Kumar, (ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC / IR / INV. 13109 & 13110; 1 ♂, Dehradun, ZSI Campus (30 ° 20 ′ 46 ″ N & 78 ° 00 ′ 52 ″ E, 682 m), 9. viii. 1993, Coll. S. K. Gupta, (ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI / WGRC / IR / INV. 13111.