Poecilotiphia pseudofasciculata (GUIGLIA 1963)

Boni, M., 2008, Contribution to the knowledge of the Palaearctic Meriini (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2), pp. 1367-1397 : 1379

Poecilotiphia pseudofasciculata (GUIGLIA 1963)

Meria pseudofasciculata GUIGLIA 1963: 235-237 – Holotypus: Israel =/ Jerusalem ( Palestina) 27.VII.1939 leg Bytinski-Salz/,?. Paratypus: Israel = / Palestine Jerusalem 6.8.1939 Bytinsky-Salz/ / Meria pseudofasciculata det. Dott. D. Guiglia/ / Paratypus / / Paratypus Meria pseudofasciculata Guig. Gorbatovsky 1988 / / Poecilotiphia parvula Gorbatovsky det. 1988 /; MSNG!

E x a m i n e d s p e c i m e n s:

: Israel = (1) / Palestine Akka costal zone VI.1921 PA Buxton / MSNG. Jordan = (3) /O. Jordan Adilun (Burg) 900m 28.VII.1958 /, MSNG; (1) / Giordania Petra 600m 21.VIII.1964 J. Klapperich /, CB. Syria = (1) / Syria 40 km Homs 18.6.2000 leg. M. Halada /, OLML; (5) / Syria S Kafr Suwayda 21.6.2000 leg. M. Halada /, (4) OLML, (1) MZUF .

Male. Paratype. Figs 69-73.

D i s c u s s i o n: Similar in general habitus and shape of Tsa (forming a sort of ledge above clypeus) to P. parvula , these specimens, besides other smaller and more instable differences, greatly and firmly differ in three discriminating characters within Myzininae: shape of the head in frontal aspect, shape of the N 1 disk in dorsal aspect and shape of the epipygial lobes. Genitalia are very similar, only volsella have a more flattened cuspis and longer swordlike process. The anteroventral corner of N 1 is well rounded in all the specimens examined, whereas in P. parvula it is ventrally prominent. On the basis of the data actually disposable it has been considered far better to consider them as segregated taxa. The specimens here recorded look very like to the figure N.24, Planche 15, of the Savigny‘s "Description de l‘Egypte", upon which GUÉRIN (1837) named Myzine audouini, but as long as no specimen from Egypt can be examined any relative inference is inadvisable.