Afrotropical Ceraphronoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) put back on the map with the description of 88 new species Author Salden, Tobias A804D6E6-BCCA-453B-A6DD-8E80B67B4559 Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Museum Koenig, Arthropoda Department, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany. t.salden@leibniz-lib.de Author Peters, Ralph S. 5C16658B-28A2-4D32-8B5D-1371553DDA18 Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Museum Koenig, Arthropoda Department, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany. r.peters@leibniz-lib.de text European Journal of Taxonomy 2023 2023-07-21 884 1 1 386 http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.884.2181 journal article 59354 10.5852/ejt.2023.884.2181 fe3f62a2-6be2-4f38-8d69-da7d077408e6 2118-9773 8177941 A128228C-185E-4D21-B23B-223C7C737C4C Ceraphron confusus Sundholm, 1970 Fig. 101 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 ). 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. Fig. 101. Allotype of Ceraphron confusus Sundholm, 1970 (MZLU-HYM-00057075). A . Male genitalia. B . Habitus in dorsal view. C . Type labels. Imaged by Christoffer Fägerström at the MZLU (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mzluhym00057075, last accessed 13/05/2022). 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 .