Cyoceraphron africanus Dessart, 1975

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 : 361-362

Cyoceraphron africanus Dessart, 1975

Johnson & Musetti 2004: 46.

Material examined

Holotype

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO • ♀; “Yangambi Observations”; 19 Nov. 1946; “R. I. Sc. N. B. /I. G. 24.778”; “Prép. microscopique n° 7308/131”; RBINS; PSUC_FEM000147266 .

Non-type specimens

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO • 3 ♀♀; “Yalokombe B41”; 3 Nov. 1951; “Coll. Debauche ”; “R. I. Sc. N. B. /I. G. 24.778”; RBINS (probably the three females mentioned in Dessart 1978: 282, collected together with Cyoceraphron fuscopleuralis types).

Remarks

Male known but male genitalia unknown. The card mounted female holotype of C. africanus was heavily damaged during shipment from RBINS. Only the mesosoma with the right legs, the left coxae and the left F8 and F9 are attached to the card. The right antenna, right metatibia and metatarsus and a fore wing are slide mounted. The colour pattern of the mesosoma as described by Dessart (1975b) is hardly visible and oddly seems to flake off. The additional examined females were also heavily damaged during shipment from RBINS: the first female is completely missing, from the second female only one hind wing is left attached to the card but the rest is missing and the third female is attached to the card without its head, its left legs (except coxae) and its right metatarsus. Dessart (1994a: 28) described a male specimen but without any information on the male genitalia.

Biology

Unknown.

Distribution

Afrotropical: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon and Guinea.

Type depositories

The female holotype and four additional females are deposited in the RBINS. One female and one male apallotype are deposited in the CNC [type terminology taken from Dessart (1994a)].