Taeniogonalos fulvoscutellata (Ayyar, 1919)

(Figures 3 a-d, 4a–e and 5a–f)

Poecilogonalos fulvoscutellata Ayyar, 1919: 471 [India: Tamil Nadu, Pulney Hills, 3600 feet, Madura district. Coll. P. Susainathan (P.S. Nathan); v. 1917] (see Materials and methods for holotype deposition) (transferred to Taeniogonalos by Carmean and Kimsey 1998: 67)

Poecilogonalos mimus Cockerell 1920: 191; Rohwer 1929: 66 (synonym of T. fulvoscutellata (Ayyar) by Bischoff 1938: 7; Weinstein and Austin 1991: 423)

Taeniogonalos sauteri (non Bischoff 1913): Smith and Tripotin 2015: 11–12 (misidentification)

Type material

Holotype of T. mimus, ♀ (Figures 3a–d), India: Tamil Nadu, Palani hills (= south India, Pulney hills), 3000–6000 ft., 10–31 May 1917, coll. P. S. Nathan (USNM) Type No. 23451, USNMENT 01545544.

Additional material examined

♀, India: Kerala, Thrissur district, Malakkappara (10.279°N, 76.861°E; alt. 949 m), 1 February 2017, coll. P. Girish Kumar (ZSIK) Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRC /IR/INV.17488.

Diagnosis

Scutellum entirely yellow-orange or yellow (Figures 3c and 5b); outer side of supraantennal elevations oblique and elevations 0.4× as long as scape; occipital carina distinct; head finely punctate, punctures on head widely placed, more than half the diameter of individual punctures, interspaces smooth and shiny, punctures fade posteriorly towards occiput and ventrally towards gena (Figure 4d); temple dorsally largely smooth except for some punctures (Figure 4c); head distinctly wide in dorsal view; second metasomal sternite of female subtruncate apically, armature truncate posteriorly (Figure 5f).