Bocchus confusus Olmi & van Harten, 2006

Olmi, Massimo, Copeland, Robert S. & Noort, Simon Van, 2019, Dryinidae of the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea), Zootaxa 4630 (1), pp. 1-619 : 269-270

4. Bocchus confusus Olmi & van Harten, 2006

( Fig. 102D )

Bocchus confusus Olmi & van Harten 2006: 325 ; Olmi et al. 2015: 354.

Description. ♂. Fully winged; body length 1.9–2.4 mm. Head black, except mandible testaceous; antenna testa- ceous-brown; mesosoma black; metasoma brown; legs brown, except articulations, tarsi and protibia testaceous. Antenna filiform; antennomeres in following proportions: 10:5:7:6:6:6:6:6:5.5:8. Head convex, dull, covered with short setae, completely reticulate rugose and granulate; frontal line complete; occipital carina complete; POL = 5; OL = 3; OOL = 5; OPL = 5; TL = 5. Mesoscutum dull, completely granulate and sculptured by numerous irregular keels. Notauli not visible among numerous keels; in few paratypes mesoscutum with slight tracks of notauli. Me- soscutellum shiny, reticulate rugose, with anterior half unsculptured (in specimen from Namibia, 21°55’S 18°11’E, mesoscutellum almost completely smooth, unsculptured). Metanotum dull, reticulate rugose (in specimen from Namibia, 21°55’S 18°11’E, metanotum shiny, unsculptured). Mesopleuron dull, reticulate rugose. Metapleuron dull, sculptured by numerous strong transverse keels. Metapectal-propodeal disc with strong transverse posterior keel, dull, reticulate rugose; propodeal declivity dull, with or without two complete longitudinal keels (in holotype propodeal declivity with two incomplete and short longitudinal keels); propodeal declivity with median and lateral areas completely reticulate rugose (in holotype median area shiny, punctate and unsculptured among punctures). Forewing hyaline, without dark transverse bands; distal part of 2r-rs&Rs vein shorter than proximal part (6:9); 2R1 cell open. Genitalia in Fig. 102D . Tibial spurs 1/1/2.

♀. Unknown.

Material examined. Types: ♂ holotype: YEMEN: 12 km NW of Manakhah , 15°05’N 43°42’E, 3.VII– 21.VIII.2001, MT, A. van Harten leg. ( MOLC) . Paratypes: same locality label as holotype , 8♂♂ ( MOLC); same locality label as holotype, 6.VII–21.VIII.2002, A. van Harten leg. , 3♂♂ ( MOLC). Other material: KENYA: Coast Prov. , Muhaka Forest, 4.32530°S 39.52345°E, 52 m, 27–30.V.2013, 6 m MT, indigenous forest, R. Copeland leg. , 1♂ ( NMK). NAMIBIA: Gobabis , Farm Vendetta 202, Swart-Nossob River, 21°55’S 18°11’E, 1620 m, 26–28.VI.1996, MT, dry vegetated wash, M.E. Irwin, E.I. Schlinger & E. Marias leg. , 1♂ ( DEUCD). YEMEN: 12 km NW of Manakhah , 15°05’N 43°42’E, 15.V–24.VI.2003, N. 7770 , 1♂ ( MOLC); same locality label, 24.VI–4.VIII.2003, N. 7915 , 1♂ ( MOLC) .

Hosts. Unknown.

Distribution. Kenya, Namibia, Yemen.

Figures

FIGURE 102. ♂ genitalia of Bocchus species. A, B: B. bini Olmi: ♂s from Madagascar, 25°00.40’S 46°18.20’E (A) and Uganda, Kichwamba (B); C: B. botswanensis Olmi, holotype; D: B. confusus Olmi & van Harten, holotype; E: B. forestalis Olmi, Copeland & van Noort sp. nov., holotype; F: B. fynbosensis Olmi, holotype. Scale bar: A: 0.12 mm; B, D: 0.09 mm; C: 0.11 mm; E: 0.16 mm; F: 0.13 mm.