Afrotropical Ceraphronoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) put back on the map with the description of 88 new species Salden, Tobias Peters, Ralph S. European Journal of Taxonomy 2023 2023-07-21 884 1 1 386 6BVPC Dessart, 1978 Dessart 1978 [534,1054,1414,1441] Insecta Ceraphronidae Cyoceraphron Animalia Hymenoptera 361 362 Arthropoda species fuscopleuralis   Johnson & Musetti 2004: 46.    Material examined   Holotype   DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO• ♀; “Yalokombe B41”;  3 Nov. 1951; “ Coll. Debauche”; “R. I. Sc. N. B. /I. G. 24.778”; “Prép. microscopique n° 7707/291”; RBINS; PSUC_FEM000147267.   Allotype   DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO• ♂; same collection data as for holotype; “Prép. microscopique n° 7707/292”; RBINS.   Paratype   DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO• 1 ♂; same collection data as for holotype; “Prép. microscopique n° 7708/221”; RBINS.    Remarks Male known but male genitalia unknown. Described from a series of 38 specimens(males and females) ( Dessart 1978: 280–282). Keyed in Dessart (1994a). Only one coxa and one femur of the female holotypeare left attached to the card and the right antenna is slide mounted. The rest is lost. The left middle and hind legs, except coxae, and the left fore and hind wings of the male allotypeare missing. The metasoma and both fore wings of the male paratypeare missing. The damage occurred during shipment from RBINS. Dessart (1994a)described four subspecies (  C. fuscopleuralis fuscopleuralis,  C. fuscopleuralis longiscapus,  C. fuscopleuralis perfuscus,  C. fuscopleuralis taiwanensis) which slightly differ in colour patterns, antennal segment ratios, the arrangement of the posterior mesosomal comb, and geographical range. Detailed comparisons of male genitalia of the subspecies might reveal true species limits (see also Dessart 1994a: 33). For comparisons with similar species, see remarks under  Cyoceraphron harpe sp. nov.and  C. dhahabudosalis sp. nov.    Biology Unknown.    Distribution Afrotropical (including Kenya), and Indomalayan.    Type depositories The female holotype, 26 female paratypes, one male allotypeand 10 male paratypesare deposited in the RBINS. Two females and one male paratypeare deposited in the PPRI( Dessart 1978: 282). Further specimens of subspecies are deposited in the CNC, NHMUKand RBINS( Dessart 1994a). 4167359382 1951-11-03 RBINS Coll. Debauche Democratic Republic of the Congo DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 361 362 PSUC_FEM000147267 1 1 holotype 4167359337 1951-11-03 RBINS Coll. Debauche & R. I. Sc. Democratic Republic of the Congo DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 361 362 1 1 allotype 4167359339 1951-11-03 RBINS Coll. Debauche & R. I. Sc. Democratic Republic of the Congo DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 361 362 1 1 paratype