Ceraphron masneri Dessart, 1963

Salden, Tobias & Peters, Ralph S., 2023, Afrotropical Ceraphronoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) put back on the map with the description of 88 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 884 (1), pp. 1-386 : 355-356

Ceraphron masneri Dessart, 1963

Fig. 103

Johnson & Musetti 2004: 35.

Material examined

Holotype

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO • ♂; “ Congo belge Musosa ”; Oct. 1939; H.-J. Brédo; “R. Mus. Hist. Nat. Belg. I. G. 13.212”; “Prép. microscopiques n° 6203/071A–E”; RBINS PSUC_ FEM000147261 .

Allotype

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO • ♀; same collection data as for holotype; “Prép. microscopique n° 6203/072 A.B”; RBINS.

Paratype

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO • 1 ♂; same collection data as for holotype; “Prép. microscopique n° 6306/171”; RBINS .

Remarks

Male and male genitalia known. In the card mounted male holotype of C. masneri , the head is missing (damaged during shipment from RBINS). The metasoma of the male paratype is deposited in a vial. Male genitalia of the holotype (“Prép. n° 6203/071.E”) and paratype (“Prép. n° 6306/171”) are slide mounted. Dessart (1963b: 533, fig. 6B‒E) published a detailed drawing of the male genitalia. The species can be distinguished from all other treated species by the different shape of the male genitalia (e.g., dorsal and lateral margin of harpe with indentation), very elongated flagellomeres (i.e., scape being shorter than F1 and F2 combined), and the mesometapleuron having distinct longitudinal striations with a mesometapleural sulcus ( Fig. 103 ).

Biology

Unknown.

Distribution

Afrotropical: Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Type depository

The male holotype, female allotype and male paratype are deposited in the RBINS.

Figures

Fig. 103. Holotype of Ceraphron masneri Dessart, 1963 (PSUC_FEM000147261) in dorsolateral view. Image provided by István Mikó.