Aphanogmus dictynna ( Waterston, 1923 )

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 : 341

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2023.884.2181
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A128228C-185E-4D21-B23B-223C7C737C4C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8178050
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C33B177D-E84B-FEA8-FDF9-FC24FD48F8C6
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Aphanogmus dictynna ( Waterston, 1923 )
status

Treatment

Aphanogmus dictynna ( Waterston, 1923) View in CoL

Johnson & Musetti 2004: 14.

Aphanogmus dictynna View in CoL – Buffington & Polaszek 2009: 65 View Cited Treatment , fig. 6 (description, male genitalia, biology). — Mikó 2012a, 2012b (male genitalia dorsal and ventral view).

Remarks

Male and male genitalia known. Species delimitations (see A. robustus sp. nov. and A. kisiwa sp. nov.) were done on the basis of the illustrated description by Waterston (1923: 114‒118, figs 7–8) and later detailed images of the male genitalia by Buffington & Polaszek (2009) and Mikó (2012a, 2012b). Polaszek (in Buffington & Polaszek 2009) assigned the species to the Aphanogmus hakonensis species complex (described in Polaszek & Dessart 1996) which is – considering the published diagnostic characters – part of the A. fumipennis species group.

Biology

Hyperparasitoid, parasitizes Cephalonomia stephanoderis Betrem, 1961 and Prorops nasuta Waterston, 1923 ( Hymenoptera : Bethylidae ), primary parasitoids of the coffee berry borer Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari, 1867) ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae ) ( Buffington & Polaszek 2009).

Distribution

Afrotropical: Kenya and Uganda.

Type depositories

The female holotype is deposited at NHMUK. Further specimens, at least 30 females and 27 males, are deposited at ICIPE, NHMUK and USNM.