Mesa haemorroidalis (GUÉRIN 1837)

Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1657-1744 : 1677

Mesa haemorroidalis (GUÉRIN 1837)

Myzine haemorroidalis GUÉRIN 1837: 576 . H o l o t y p u s: South Africa = / Afrique Delalande / (round label) / Myzine haemorroidalis Guér Mag. Zool. Cap / /Museum Paris Afrique austral Delalande/ (green label) / Type / (red types), MHNP!

Elis ( Mesa ) fusiformis TURNER 1919: 44-45. H o l o t y p u s: / Cape Colony Kraaifontein Lightfood/ / Elis (Mes) fusiformis Turn Type / (autographic) / Type / (red label) /Methoca concinna B - new/ /SAM Hym A003346/ SAM!

Mesa haemorroidalis - BONI BARTALUCCI 2004a: 36.

M a t e r i a l

South Africa = (1) / Rapenburg Cape Flats 1-14.X.1920 / / S. Africa R. E. Turner 1920-424/ BMNH; (1) / Stelenburg 17.9.23 C.J. Joubert / / Pres. By Com. Inst. Ent. B.M. 1948-182/ / Mesa fusiformis (Turn) det C.J. Guillarmod / BMNH; (2) / Africa Cape Prov. Pakhuis Pass Sept. 1961 SA Museum Exped – Cape Town / SAM .

Female sex unknown. Male ( figs 35-38 ) can be well known from other taxa by absence of graduli at the base of terga and by strong lamina along half ventral border of hind femur. Distinct also by the ferruginous coloration of final metameri and strong wrinkles at the base of 7 th tergum. which shows a deep notch.

D i s t r i b u t i o n r a n g e:SouthAfrica.

Figures

Figs 35-38: Mesa haemorroidalis: (35) epipygium; (36) gonosquama, (37) volsella, (38) aedeagus. Fig. 39: Mesa nodosa, habitus. (35: scale bar: 2 mm; 36-38; scale bar: 0.5 mm; 39: scale bar: 5 mm).