Ceraphron confusus Sundholm, 1970

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 : 351-352

Ceraphron confusus Sundholm, 1970

Fig. 101

Johnson & Musetti 2004: 31.

Remarks

Male and male genitalia known. Described from females and males ( Sundholm 1970: 357‒359), including a drawing of male genitalia (p. 358, fig. 127). The MZLU imaged the allotype, its male genitalia and the corresponding label ( Fig. 101 ). The species is very similar to C. reinholdi sp. nov. (see remarks under C. reinholdi ). Additionally, Sundholm (1970: 359) described the form C. confusus f. brachypterus from a short winged female and a presumably fully winged male. The genitalia of the C. confusus f. brachypterus male differ from those of the C. confusus male. They are similar to those of C. mamamutere sp. nov. in shape and harpe/gvc index ( Sundholm 1970: 360, fig. 130). However, the form brachypterus and C. mamamutere can be distinguished by a stronger colour contrast between flagellum and scape + pedicel and a longer scape and a distinct broader F 9 in C. confusus f. brachypterus ( Sundholm 1970: 360, fig. 129). The description of a form with distinctly different male genitalia does not seem particularly useful, and the form might well represent a distinct species.

Biology

Unknown.

Distribution

Afrotropical: South Africa.

Type depository

The female holotypes and male allotypes of C. confusus and C. confusus f. brachypterus are deposited in the MZLU.

Figures

Fig. 101. Allotype of Ceraphron confusus Sundholm, 1970 (MZLU-HYM-00057075). A. Male genitalia. B. Habitus in dorsal view. C. Type labels. Imaged by Christoffer Fägerström at the MZLU (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mzluhym00057075, last accessed 13/05/2022).