4. Apoaphelopus wallacei Olmi, Copeland & van Noort, sp. nov.

(Figs 264F, 266D, 267)

Diagnosis. ♂ of Apoaphelopus with POL about twice as long as OOL; notauli incomplete, reaching about 0.5 × length of mesoscutum.

Description. ♂ (Figs 266D, 267). Fully winged; length 0.9 mm. Head testaceous-dark, except mandible tes- taceous; antenna whitish; mesosoma and metasoma testaceous; legs yellow-testaceous. Antenna filiform, shorter than body; antennomeres in following proportions: 7:3:2:2.5:2.5:3:2.5:2:2:5. Head convex, subspheroidal, dull, granulate, finely setose; occiput very concave, unsculptured; frontal line absent; central area of frons with slight short median longitudinal furrow; occipital carina complete; POL = 3; OL = 1.5; OOL = 1.5; TL = 1; posterior ocelli touching occipital carina; temple shorter than eye (1:5). Mesoscutum, mesoscutellum and metanotum shiny, completely unsculptured. Notauli incomplete, reaching about 0.5 × length of mesoscutum. Epicnemium exposed. Metapectal-propodeal disc and propodeal declivity shiny, almost completely unsculptured, slightly rugose on sides of metapectal-propodeal disc. Mesopleuron and metapleuron shiny, unsculptured. Forewing without pterostigma, with costal vein very thick; costal cell absent; 2r-rs&Rs vein present and not reaching margin of forewing; other veins of forewing absent, veins M and Cu being marked by dark stripes. Hind wing with costal vein absent, with two dark longitudinal median stripes. Basivolsella (Fig. 264F) with distal process parallel to distivolsella. Palpi absent. Tibial spurs 1/1/2.

♀. Unknown.

Material examined. Type: ♂ holotype, NMK/INV/T-638: KENYA: Coast Prov., Diani Beach area, 4.27559°S 39.59337°E, 10 m, MT, shrubland off Diani Beach Rd., 8–22.I.2014, R. Copeland leg. (NMK) .

Hosts. Unknown.

Distribution. Kenya.

Etymology. The species is named in honour of the great naturalist, explorer and writer, Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder, together with Charles Darwin, of modern evolutionary theory, and himself a collector of many rare and undescribed species.