Traihoriella punjabensis Ansari, 1947

(Figs 263–269)

Traihoriella punjabensis Ansari, 1947: 290 .

Brueelia punjabensis (Ansari), 1947; Hopkins & Clay, 1952: 60.

Type host. Psilopogon virens marshallorum Swinhoe, 1870 — great barbet. Type locality. Kulu, Punjab, India.

Other host. Psilopogon virens virens (Boddaert, 1783) — great barbet.

Description. Head shape, structure, and chaetotaxy as in genus description and Fig. 265. Displaced section of marginal carina not widened. Coni long and slender, reaching to distal margin of scapes. Preocular nodi large, quadratic. Postocular nodi large, rounded; pos located immediately posterior to eye. Thoracic and abdominal segments as in genus description and Figs 263–264. Pleural incrassations extensive, lateral to spiracle openings.

Male. Abdominal chaetotaxy as in Table 7 and Fig. 263; aps present on segments V–VII. Basal apodeme constricted at mid-length (Fig. 266), much wider proximally than distally. Proximal mesosome broad, anterior margin convergent. Gonopore (Fig. 267) closed distally, terminal, with rugose proximal margin. Mesosomal lobes small, angular; 2 pmes microsetae on distal margin of lobes. Parameral heads (Fig. 268) roughly quadratic. Parameral blades short, lobe-like, blunt; pst1–2 as in genus description. Measurements ex Psilopogon virens marshallorum (n = 8): TL = 1.51–1.70; HL = 0.42–0.45; HW = 0.44–0.47; PRW = 0.27–0.30; PTW = 0.39–0.42; AW = 0.54–0.63.

Female. Abdominal chaetotaxy as in Table 7 and Fig. 264. Subgenital plate roughly trapezoidal, with wide median section reaching vulval margin (Fig. 269). Vulval margin (Fig. 269) bulging medianly, with 3–4 short, slender vms on each side, and 4–6 short, thorn-like vss on each side; 4–5 short, slender vos; distal vos median to vss. Measurements ex Psilopogon virens marshallorum (n = 17): TL = 1.74–2.03 (1.88); HL = 0.43–0.49 (0.47); HW = 0.45–0.51 (0.48); PRW = 0.29–0.33 (0.31); PTW = 0.40–0.46 (0.43); AW = 0.61–0.73 (0.68).

Type material. Ex Psilopogon virens marshallorum: Holotype ♀, Kulu, Punjab, India, Sep. 1928, Brit. Mus. 1953-2 (NHML).

Additional material examined (non-types)

Ex Psilopogon virens marshallorum: 2♀, same data as holotype (NHML); 8♂, 18♀, Nepal, May 1935, R. Meinertzhagen, 4436 (NHML) [slide contains a female of the Degeeriella -complex].