Afrotropical Ceraphronoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) put back on the map with the description of 88 new species
Author
Salden, Tobias
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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.
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Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Museum Koenig, Arthropoda Department, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
r.peters@leibniz-lib.de
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European Journal of Taxonomy
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2023-07-21
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.884.2181
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Aphanogmus trasides
Polaszek, 1995
Aphanogmus trasides
–
Polaszek & LaSalle 1995: 133
, 135–136 (keyed, diagnosis), 139, fig. 24 (male genitalia).
Remarks
Male and male genitalia known.
Aphanogmus trasides
is not listed in
Johnson & Musetti (2004)
. It was rather superficially described by
Polaszek & LaSalle (1995)
with three images of the female head and mesosoma and a rough drawing of the male genitalia. The harpe is not bilobed and equipped with at least one long lateral seta and at least five median setae. The digital teeth are pointed and distinct. According to the drawing of the genitalia by
Polaszek & LaSalle (1995)
,
A. trasides
can be distinguished from all other described species of
Aphanogmus
by the distinctive high harpe/gvc index: 1.27. Based on the information given by
Polaszek & LaSalle (1995: 136
, fig. 12), the species is assigned here to the
A. fumipennis
species group.
Biology
Parasitizes presumably
Braconidae
or
Ichneumonidae
through
Eldana saccharina
Walker, 1865
(
Lepidoptera
:
Pyralidae
) (
Polaszek & LaSalle 1995
).
Distribution
Afrotropical:
Ivory Coast
.
Type
depositories
The male
holotype
is deposited in the
PPRI
and the male
paratype
and
21 female
paratypes
are deposited in the
NHMUK
,
RBINS
,
PPRI
and the
WUR
(formerly
WAU
) (
Polaszek & LaSalle 1995: 136
).