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Two new species of the genera Caenophanes Foerster, 1862, Caenophanes (Caenophanes) dlusskyi sp. n., and Neurocrassus Šnoflak, 1945, N. africanus sp. n., from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Côte d’Ivoire are described and illustrated. The new combination Neurocrassus transversalis (Szépligeti, 1914), comb. n. is given. Резюме. Описываются и иллюстрируются два новых вида из родов Caenophanes Foerster, 1862, Caenophanes (Caenophanes) dlusskyi sp. n., и Neurocrassus Šnoflak, 1945, N. africanus sp. n., из Демократической Республики Конго и Республики Кот-д’Ивуар. Дается новая комбинация Neurocrassus transversalis (Szépligeti, 1914), comb. n. Afrotropical parasitoids of the family Braconidae have been extensively studied by numerous hymenopterists [Yu et al., 2012]. However, the species diversity of the parasitoid taxa in the African region is far from being completely known. The aim of this paper is to document the presence of the doryctine genera Caenophanes Foerster, 1862 and Neurocrassus Šnoflak, 1945 for the Afrotropical Region, and describe two new species of these genera from Democratic Republic of Congo and Republic of Côte d’Ivoire. Material and methods The studied material was selected from the collection of the Musee Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (Tervuren, Belgium; MRAC). Specimens were examined using a MC-2 stereomicroscope. The images were taken with a Leica IC 3D digital camera mounted on a Leica® MZ16 microscope and using the Leica Application Suite® imaging system (Museum and Institute of Zoology, Warsaw, Poland). The terminology employed in this work for the morphological features and measurements follows Belokobylskij and Maetô [2009]. The wing venation nomenclature follows Belokobylskij and Maetô [2009] and Sharkey and Wharton [1997] in parentheses. The holotypes of both new species are deposited in the collection of Musee Royal de l’Afrique Centrale (Tervuren, Belgium), one paratype in the collection of Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia; ZISP). Genus Caenophanes Foerster, 1862 Type species Bracon incompletus Ratzeburg, 1844. The genus Caenophanes Foerster, 1862 is a small taxon with about 20 described species from the Palaearctic [Belokobylskij, Maetô, 2006, 2009; Belokobylskij et al., 2011], Oriental [Belokobylskij, 1993], Australasian [Belokobylskij et al., 2004; Belokobylskij, 2010], Nearctic [Haimowitz et al., 2014] and Neotropical [Marsh, 2014] regions. This genus was also recorded from the Afrotropical Region [Zaldívar-Riverón et al., 2008], but without species determination. Caenophanes is divided into two subgenera [Belokobylskij, 2010]. The nominative subgenus Caenophanes s. str. (with type species Bracon incompletus Ratzeburg, 1844) has an almost worldwide distribution and includes most of the described species. The second subgenus, Pacificophanes Belokobylskij, 2010 (with type species Caenophanes baloghi Belokobylskij, 2010), is known exclusively from New Caledonia. Some species of Caenophanes have been reared from xylophagous and bark-borer beetle larvae belonging to species of the coleopteran families Cerambycidae, Curculionidae (including Scolytinae) and Buprestidae [Belokobylskij et al., 2011]. Caenophanes (Caenophanes) dlusskyi Belokobylskij, sp. n. (Color plate 15: 1–10) Material. Holotype, ♀: “Coll. Mus. Congo, N. Lac Kiwu: Rwankwi, XII – 1951, J.V. Leroy” (MRAC). Description. Female. Body length 2.1 mm; fore wing length 2.2 mm. Head not depressed, its width 1.7 times median length, 1.3 times width of mesoscutum. Head behind eyes (dorsal view) distinctly roundly narrowed. Transverse diameter of eye 1.7 times longer than temple (dorsal view). Ocelli small, forming equilateral triangle. POL about 2 times Od, 0.3 times OOL. Diameter of antennal socket almost equal to distance between sockets, about twice distance between socket and eye. Eyes glabrous, without emargination opposite antennal sockets, 1.1 times as high as broad. Malar space height 0.6 times height of eye, almost equal to basal width of mandible. Face convex, its width 1.3 times height of eye and 1.2 times height of face and clypeus combined. Malar suture absent. Clypeus with distinct lower flange. Hypoclypeal depression rather small and round, its width 0.7 times distance from edge of depression to eye, 0.4 times width of face. Occipital carina dorsally distinct and complete, ventrally joining with hypostomal carina upper base of mandible. Head below eyes (front view) distinctly and roundly narrowed. Hypostomal flange narrow. Antennae slender, filiform, more than 17-segmented (apical segments missing). Scape rather short and wide, 1.5 times longer than its maximum width. First flagellar segment slender, almost straight, subcylindrical, 8.5 times longer than its apical width, 1.1 times longer than second segment. Subapical segments about 6 times longer than their width. Mesosoma not depressed, its length 1.9 times maximum height. Pronotum rather long, convex dorsally (lateral view), anteriorly with short convex flange. Mesoscutum highly and roundly elevated above pronotum, maximum width of mesoscutum 1.1 times its length. Median lobe of mesoscutum protruding forwards, without anterolateral corners, distinctly convex anteriorly (dorsal view). Notauli narrow, deep, crenulate. Prescutellar depression deep, long, with median carina, sparsely and distinctly crenulate and with very fine granulation, 0.25 times as long as scutellum. Scutellum distinctly convex, with lateral carinae, its maximum width almost equal to median length. Subalar depression distinct, wide, mainly smooth. Sternaulus rather deep, straight, oblique, rugulose-crenulate, running along anterior half of lower part of mesopleuron. Metanotal tooth absent. Metapleural lobe short, narrow, rounded apically. Propodeum (lateral view) distinctly and convex-roundly narrowed from base to apex (lateral view), with two distinct lateral and low tubercles; propodeal spiracle small. Wings. Fore wing 3.5 times longer than its maximum width, 1.1 times longer than body. Pterostigma 4.7 times longer than wide. Radial vein (r) arising from middle of pterostigma. Radial (marginal) cell not shortened. Metacarp (R1) 1.3 times longer than pterostigma. First radial abscissa (r) almost as long as maximum width of pterostigma. Second radial abscissa (3RSa) 2.3 times longer than first abscissa (r), 0.45 times as long as the straight third abscissa (3RSb), almost as long as the trace of first radiomedial vein (2RS). Trace of first radiomedial vein (2RS) 2.3 times longer than second radiomedial vein (r-m), 2.7 times longer than recurrent vein (m-cu). First medial abscissa ((RS+M)a) weakly sinuate. Discoidal (first discal) cell 1.6 times longer than wide. Basal (1M) and recurrent (m-cu) veins divergent posteriorly. Distance from nervulus (cu-a) to basal vein (1M) almost equal to nervulus (cua) length; nervulus (cu-a) straight and perpendicular to anal vein (1-1A). Mediocubital vein (M+CU) weakly curved. Parallel vein (2CUb) interstitial. Brachial (first subdiscal) cell apically roundly closed weakly before recurrent vein (m-cu). Hind wing 5.1 times longer than wide. First abscissa of costal vein (C+Sc+R) 0.5 times as long as second abscissa (Sc+R); second abscissa (Sc+R) strongly sclerotised. Radial vein (RS) very strongly desclerotised. Medial (basal) cell narrow, but widened distally, its length 6.5 times longer than maximum width, 0.4 times length of wing. First abscissa of mediocubital vein (M+CU) 0.4 times as long as second abscissa (1M). Recurrent vein (m-cu) weakly sclerotised, short, distinctly curved, distinctly antefurcal. Legs. Fore tibia with several slender spines arranged almost in single line on inner surface. Hind coxa 1.5 times longer than its maximum width, with distinct basoventral tubercle. Hind femur thick, without dorsal protuberance, 3.7 times longer than wide. Hind tarsus 0.9 times as long as hind tibia. Hind basitarsus 0.8 times as long as second–fifth segments combined. Second tarsal segment 0.35 times as long as basitarsus, 1.2 times longer than fifth segment (without pretarsus). Metasoma 0.8 times as long as head and mesosoma combined, 2.4 times longer than its maximum width. First tergite with short acrosternite, with convex median area, with distinct dorsope, dorsal carinae complete and curved, spiracular tubercles indistinct, spiracles present in basal third; tergite distinctly and linearly widened from base to apex. Maximum width of first tergite 2.3 times its minimum width; length of tergite 1.2 times its apical width, 1.25 times length of propodeum. Second tergite without lateral furrows. Suture between second and third tergites absent. Combined length of second and third tergites 0.9 times basal width of second tergite, 0.8 times their maximum width. Third tergite without transverse furrow. Ovipositor sheath 0.9 times as long as metasoma, 0.9 times as long as mesosoma, 0.4 times as long as fore wing. Sculpture and pubescence. Head entirely smooth. Sides of pronotum densely and finely rugulose-reticulate, median oblique depression crenulate. Mesoscutum and scutellum densely and distinctly granulate, mesoscutum with single undulate longitudinal median carina in posterior 0.4 and short rugosity around it. Mesopleuron entirely smooth. Metapleuron rather sparsely and finely rugulose. Propodeum with areas distinctly delineated by carinae, basolateral areas large and reticulate-granulate, finely reticulate to almost smooth in anterior quarter; basal carina 3 times longer than anterior fork of areola; areola narrow and short; petiolate area subsquare; posterior part of propodeum rugosereticulate. Hind coxae smooth, finely granulate in dorsobasal quarter. Hind femur densely and finely aciculate dorsally, mainly almost smooth. First tergite distinctly and densely striate, with dense reticulation between striae. Second tergite in basal 0.7 distinctly and mainly obliquely striate with reticulation, sm

Two new species of the genera Caenophanes Foerster, 1862 and Neurocrassus Šnoflak, 1945 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the Afrotropical Region