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 6C7NK Dessart, 1975 Dessart 1975 [561,1026,909,936] Insecta Ceraphronidae Cyoceraphron Animalia Hymenoptera 360 361 Arthropoda species africanus   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 Dessart1978: 282, collected together with  Cyoceraphron fuscopleuralistypes).    Remarks Male known but male genitalia unknown. The card mounted female holotypeof  C. africanuswas 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, Gabonand Guinea.    Type depositories The female holotypeand four additional females are deposited in the RBINS. One female and one maleapallotype are deposited in the CNC[type terminology taken from Dessart (1994a)]. 4167359306 1946-11-19 RBINS R. I. Sc. Democratic Republic of the Congo DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 360 361 PSUC_FEM000147266 1 1 holotype 4167359604 1951-11-03 RBINS Debauche Democratic Republic of the Congo DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 360 361 3 3