Poecilotiphia kerena, Boni, 2008

Boni, M., 2008, Contribution to the knowledge of the Palaearctic Meriini (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2), pp. 1367-1397 : 1381-1382

Poecilotiphia kerena nov.sp.

Holotypus - Erythraea = / Eritrea Cheren D.F. Derchi 1894/ / Poecilotiphia sp. Gorbatovsky det. 1990/, MSNG.

Paratypi - Erythraea = (2) / Orti Keren 23.II.83/ / Africa /, MSNG; (2) / Eritrea Cheren D.F. Derchi 1894/ / Poecilotiphia sp. Gorbatovsky det. 1990/, MSNG; (1) / Presso Sogale 6-3-89 / / Africa / / Coll. Magretti /, MSNG; (2) / Africa / / Orti Keren 23-4-89 /, MSNG; (1) / Orti Keren 23-4-89 / / Meria africana Sauss var. 1° seg. Abd. nigro non rubro ferrugineo /, MSNG; (1) / Africa / / 6-fasciata Rossi var C Guér. / / Col. ne P. Magretti / / 306.a / /47/, MSNG; (1) / Coll. Magretti C a Eritrea Agardar 25-28 II 1900 /, MSNG; (4) / Orti Dari 22.11.1900 /, MSNG .

Male. Holotype. Figs 97-104 . Measurements (mm): body length = 8.

Black, Brown, yellow.

Brown: mandibles, LaSt 2, veins of the wings, dark areas of the legs and all the tarsi.

Yellow: large spot on clypeal disk; subtle apical stripe on Tsa; frontal mandible; two lateral spots along the cOc; subapical stripe on N 1 disk; tegulae; small spot on the Sc 1; outer surface of tibiaer; two very small lateral spots on 1 st Tergum; thin apical stripe with enlarging sides on 2 nd to 6 th terga.

Punctuation scattered on most of the body, with interspaces larger than diameter of the p.; dense p. without smooth areas on P. Em 3 with strong horizontal wrinkles throughout.

Deep hollow at the base of Tsa which show a clear median notch in dorsal spect. Pog area flattened without detectable suture. Placoids detectable at the base of the last four flagellomeri. N 1 with moderately laminated keel along its fore border. Propleurae only moderately swollen. 7 th tergum swollen in lateral aspect.

D i s c u s s i o n: Size and general habitus like P. parvula , it differs from it and its fellows P. subpetiolata, P. pseudofasciculata , P. collarinata , P. aramaica mainly because of the deep hollow at the base of Tsa and the swollen 7 th tergum. The last character state differs it from other males which show similar hollow: P. aegyptiaca (GUÉRIN 1837), P. oasicola BONI BARTALUCCI 2001, P. ruvida BONI BARTALUCCI 2004 and turanica nov.sp.; the latter clearly distinct from it also because of absence of median notch between Tsa.

V a r i a b i l i t y Some paratypes show larger yellow patterns ; only little variabilty about size: from 7 to 8,5mm.

Female. Unknown.

E c o l o g y: Unknown.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Erythraea.

D e r i v a t i o n o m i n i s: From the city of Keren, NW Erythraea.

Figures

Figs 97-104: Poecilotiphia kerena nov.sp. Holotype. (97) head frontal aspect; (98) head, dorsal aspect; (99) pronotum, dorsal aspect; (100) pronotum, lateral aspect; (101) basal metameri, dorsal aspect; (102) 7th tergum, dorsal aspect; (103) 7th tergum, lateral aspect; (104) gonostylus and volsella.