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

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.8178125

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C33B177D-E841-FEA3-FDE4-FA6DFE84F951

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Ceraphron confusus Sundholm, 1970
status

 

Ceraphron confusus Sundholm, 1970 View in CoL

Fig. 101 View Fig

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 View Fig ). 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.

MZLU

Lund University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ceraphronidae

Genus

Ceraphron

Loc

Ceraphron confusus Sundholm, 1970

Salden, Tobias & Peters, Ralph S. 2023
2023
Loc

Johnson & Musetti 2004: 31
2004
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