Afrocampsis van Achterberg & Quicke, 1990

Belokobylskij, Sergey A., 2025, Two new species for the rare Afrotropical genera Afrocampsis van Achterberg & Quicke and Malasigalphus van Achterberg & Austin (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Zootaxa 5689 (3), pp. 570-580 : 571

Genus Afrocampsis van Achterberg & Quicke, 1990

Type species: A. griseosetosus van Achterberg & Quicke, 1990 .

van Achterberg & Quicke 1990: 156; van Achterberg & Austin 1992: 9; Yu et al. 2016.

The monotypic Afrotropical genus Afrocampsis van Achterberg & Quicke was originally described in the subfamily Sigalphinae ( van Achterberg & Quicke 1990) , and in the revision of the sigalphine genera it was separated (together with Malasigalphus ) in the tribe Afrocampsini ( van Achterberg & Austin 1992) . However, Afrocampsis was later transferred to the subfamily Acampsohelconinae and united here with the genera Canalicephalus Gibson and Urosigalphus Ashmead ( van Achterberg 2002; Quicke et al. 2008). The relation of these three extant genera was additionally supported on the molecular level ( Quicke et al. 2008; Jasso-Martinez et al. 2022), while the taxonomical position of the fossil genus Acampsohelcon Tobias, 1987 ( Tobias 1987) requires additional verification.

Prior to this work, Afrocampsis described from Republic of Cameroon and South Africa was monotypic ( Yu et al. 2016). However, the genus is no longer monotypic with a new species described here from material collected in the Kwazulu-Natal Province of South Africa.