Ceraphron alticola Kieffer, 1913

Trietsch, Carolyn, Mikó, István & Deans, Andrew R., 2019, A photographic catalog of Ceraphronoidea types at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN), with comments on unpublished notes from Paul Dessart, European Journal of Taxonomy 502, pp. 1-60 : 19

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scientific name	Ceraphron alticola Kieffer, 1913
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Treatment

Fig. 9

Ceraphron alticola Kieffer, 1913b: 10 , 13, ♀. MNHN. Keyed.

Calliceras alticola – Kieffer 1914c: 78, 103. Generic transfer, description, keyed.

Ceraphron alticola – Risbec 1950: 552. Keyed. –– Dessart 1966a: 20. Description; 1989: 230. Keyed.

Material examined

Syntype KENYA • ♀; “Maü escarpment, á Molo, altitude de 2.420 m., 2 décembre 1911, st. no 19” ( Kieffer 1913b: 13); MNHN EY25359 About MNHN , EY22427, EY22428 .

Distribution

Afrotropical.

Comments

Kieffer (1913) described Ceraphron alticola from a female specimen or specimens, though this is the only type known for this species to date. At this point, we consider this specimen to be a syntype. There are no original locality or type labels with the specimen, though there is a note reading “ Ceraphron alticola || Type 19 K.”. The same type number appears on the label for Aphanogmus fumipennis (vial MNHN EY25361), originally the type of Kieffer’s Ceraphron oriphilus .

Dessart dissected this specimen in 1966 and made two microscope preparations (prép. no. 6505/183), one of the right antenna (MNHN EY22427) and one of the right forewing (MNHN EY22428). The specimens are circled in black to indicate their position on the slides. The rest of the female specimen is in ethanol (vial MNHN EY25359).

References

Dessart P. 1966 a. Contribution a l'etude des Hymenopteres Proctotrupoidea. (XI). Revision des Ceraphronidae d'Afrique orientale decrits par l'Abbe Jaen-Jacques Kieffer. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 42: 1 - 30.

Kieffer J. J. 1913 b. Proctotrupidae, Cynipidae et Evaniidae. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale (1911 - 1912). Resultats Scientifiques. Hymenopteres 1: 1 - 35. https: // doi. org / 10.5281 / zenodo. 23834

Kieffer J. J. 1914 c. Serphidae (= Proctotrupidae) et Calliceratidae (= Ceraphronidae). Das Tierreich 42. R. Friedlander und Sohn, Berlin. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 1219

Risbec J. 1950. Contribution a l'etude des Proctotrupidae (Serphiidae). Proctotrupides de la Section technique d'Agriculture tropicale (A. O. F.) et Proctotrupides du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle (Afrique et Colonies francaises). Travaux du Laboratoire d'Entomologie du Secteur Soudanais de Recherches Agronomiques, Gouvernement Generale de l'Afrique Occidentale Francais.