Aphelopus severancei Olmi, Copeland & Guglielmino, 2015

Olmi, Massimo, Copeland, Robert S. & Noort, Simon Van, 2019, Dryinidae of the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea), Zootaxa 4630 (1), pp. 1-619 : 48-51

5. Aphelopus severancei Olmi, Copeland & Guglielmino, 2015

( Figs 13C , 17A, B )

Aphelopus severancei Olmi, Copeland & Guglielmino 2015: 337 .

Description. ♀. Fully winged; body length 1.9–2.2 mm. Head brown, except mandible and anterior half of frons whitish (occasionally frons with only area between toruli whitish); antenna brown, except scape and pedicel testaceous; mesosoma and metasoma brown; legs yellow-testaceous. Antenna filiform; antennomeres in following proportions: 5:4:5:6:6:6:6:5:5:8. Head dull, granulate; frontal line absent; occipital carina complete; POL = 6; OL = 4; OOL = 3.5; OPL = 3; TL = 2.5; greatest breadth of lateral ocelli shorter than OPL (2.5:4). Mesoscutum, mesoscutellum and metanotum dull, granulate. Notauli incomplete, reaching about 0.4–0.5 × length of mesoscutum. Metapectal-propodeal disc and propodeal declivity reticulate rugose. Forewing hyaline, without dark transverse bands; 2r-rs&Rs vein regularly curved. Tibial spurs 1/1/2.

♂ ( Figs 17A, B ). Fully winged; body length 1.5–2.4 mm. Head black, except mandible testaceous; antenna brown; mesosoma black; metasoma brown; legs brown. Antenna filiform; antennomeres in following proportions: 6:5:6.5:6.5:7:8:7:7:7:9. Head dull, granulate; frontal line shortly present near clypeus; occipital carina complete; POL = 7; OL = 4; OOL = 4; OPL = 4; TL = 4; greatest breadth of lateral ocelli shorter than OPL (2:4). Mesoscutum, mesoscutellum and metanotum dull, granulate. Notauli incomplete, reaching about 0.4–0.5 × length of mesoscutum. Metapectal-propodeal disc and propodeal declivity reticulate rugose. Forewing hyaline, without dark transverse bands; 2r-rs&Rs vein regularly curved. Basivolsella ( Fig. 13C ) with lateral medial process and 2 subdistal bristles; distivolsella with 1 very long bristle ( Fig. 13C ). Tibial spurs 1/1/2.

Material examined. Type: ♂ holotype: KENYA: Coast Prov., Taita Hills, Vuria Forest , 3.41428°S 38.29178°E, 2162 m, 12–26.VI.2011, MT just inside indigenous forest, R. Copeland leg. ( NMK) . Other material: DEMOCRAT- IC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: Haut-Uele, Wamba Territory, Ntsheshe Forest , NE of Kikongo Mission, 04°16’S 17°12’E, 14–22.VII.2008, MT at forest edge, T. Chapman leg. , 1♂ ( UCDC). KENYA: Eastern Prov., Kasaala area , 2.07846°S 38.22530°E, 740 m, 28.XI–4.XII.2013, MT, just inside isolated woodland patch, J. Bukhebi & R. Copeland leg. , 1♂ ( NMK); Eastern Prov., Nyambene Hills, Itieni Forest , at bottom, 0.24433°N 37.87016°E, 2142 m , 24.VII–7.VIII.2011, MT, edge of indigenous forest, near forest station, R. Copeland leg., 1♂ (MOLC), 2♀♀ (NMK, MOLC); same locality label, 18.IX–2.X.2011, 1♂ (NMK); Western Prov., Kakamega District, Kakamega Forest, Kisere Forest, 10–12.III.2002, light trap, Ke 1645, Manfred Kraemer leg., 1♂ (MOLC).

Hosts. Unknown.

Distribution. Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya.

Figures

FIGURE 13. A–F: ♂ genitalia (right half removed). A: Aphelopus mostovskii Olmi, holotype. B: Aphelopus sequeirai Olmi, Copeland & Guglielmino, sp. nov., holotype. C: Aphelopus severancei Olmi, Copeland & Guglielmino, holotype. D: Aphelopus testaceus Olmi, holotype. E: Aphelopus vernonensis Olmi, holotype. F: Aphelopus wittei Benoit, from Yemen, Sana’a. G: 2r-rs&Rs vein of Aphelopus vernonensis Olmi ♂ from Madagascar. Scale bar: A: 0.08 mm; B: 0.10 mm; C, E, F: 0.09 mm; D: 0.07 mm; G: 0.12 mm.

FIGURE 17. Aphelopus severancei Olmi, Copeland & Guglielmino, ♂ holotype in dorsal (A) and lateral (B) view. Aphelopus testaceus Olmi, ♂ from Tanzania, 04°06.72’S 38°01.37’E: head + part of mesosoma in dorsal view (C); habitus in lateral view (D). Aphelopus wittei Benoit: ♂ from Uganda, 00°33.891’N 30°21.468’E, in lateral view (E); ♀ from South Africa, 33°36.622’S 18°24.259’E, in lateral view (F).