Meriodes, Boni Bartalucci, 2007

Bartalucci, M. Boni, 2007, The Afrotropical genera of the subtribe Meriina (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 39 (2), pp. 1257-1305 : 1278

Meriodes nov.gen.

S p e c i e s t y p e Myzine ceresensis TURNER 1926

The female specimens looks like very much females Meria in general habitus and most of the character states; they differ mainly in the shape of the glossa and states 7 bb-ee, ii, mm. The lack of any long furrow on the frontal mandibular surface occurs in Parameria too, where nevertheless the surface is flat while in Meriodes is strongly convex. The body, but the mandibles, completely covered by microreticulation appears to be a unique feature of these females within the subtribe. The complex of the character states 15 aa-dd is unique too in the subfamily and well features the male specimens of Meriodes . All the male specimens here quoted show a supplementary longitudinal keel along the ventral inner edge of the hindcoxae (X 3), a character state which occurs in many afrotropical males Meria .

Myzine ceresensis, Myzine braunsi and M. picea sp.n. belong here. Myzine eurygaster TURNER 1916 too is placed here even though unhappily, as explained below.

Only the females of M. ceresensis and M. picea are known.

D e r i v a t i o n o m i n i s. From the combination of Meria with the suffix –odes (=to look like). Gender feminine

D i s t r i b u t i o n.AustralAfrica.