Afromeria capicola ( TURNER 1913) Bartalucci, M. Boni, 2007

Bartalucci, M. Boni, 2007, The Afrotropical genera of the subtribe Meriina (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 39 (2), pp. 1257-1305 : 1274-1275

Afromeria capicola ( TURNER 1913) nov.comb.

Myzine capicola TURNER 1913: 734

H o l o t y p e: South Africa = /Pr. b sp Meier/(blue) /1911-33/ /Myzine capicola Type Turner/(autographic) / Type /(rounded with red outer ring) /B.M. Type Hym. 15131/, BMNH!

M a t e r i a l - South Africa = (2) / Cape province Matjiesfontein 1-18.XII.1928 / / South Africa R. E.Turner Brit. Mus. 1929-15/, BMNH; (1) / Cape Province Matjesfontein 7-13 xi 1928 / / R. E. Turner Brit. Mus. 1928-522/, BMNH; (13) / S.W. Africa Aus. Jan 1930 / / R.E. Turner. Brit. Mus. 1930-117/ (one specimen has an additional label = Meria capicola (Turn) male det J.C. Guillarmod), BMNH. (1) / Cap / /M. caffra n.sp./(blue, autographic) / Type /(red) /C.ne de Saussure /, MHNG; (1) / Cap / /M. caffra n.sp. Peringuey /(blue, autographic) / Type /(red) /C.ne de Saussure /, MHNG; (1) / Hex. R. 1.1.83/ / C. ne de Saussure /, MHNG. Namibia = (1) / Riverside Bethanje SE 2618 Ca 23-26 oct. 1971 / /H4932/ / NNIC /, NNMW

Male. Figs 12-16A (Matjiesfontein specimen compared to holotype).

SAUSSURE labelled some specimens with the new name Meria caffra, but he never pub-

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lished it. It has the 1 st sternal surface exceptionally prominent, culminating in a sort of tubercle. The 2 nd sternum has a median longitudinal broad hollow; the following sterna till 6 th have a strong high gradulus, not rectilinear, with a backward median end in ventral aspect and a pocket-like invagination followed by a large deep hollow which gets medially the apical border, parting the postgradular surface in two poop-like prominences. 7 th sternum with two lateral shallow hollows. The lateral keels of 7 th sternum are strongly laminated and protruding. The tips of the epipygial lobes are very sharp and pointed. The gonostylus lacks the ventral keel.

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Namibia and South Africa.

N o t e. The 16 specimens at BMNH furnished by TURNER do not pertain at all to a possible typical series, since their seizure occurred well after its naming.

Figures

Fig 12-16A. Afromeria capicola (TURNER 1913). (12) labium, ventral and lateral aspect; (13) Labrum anteroventral aspect; (14) eN, dorsal aspect; (15) 8th sternum (anal hook), dorsal and 1 lateral aspect; (16) gonostylus and volsella; 16A: aedeagus lateral aspect. (12, 13, 16, 16A: scale bar = 0,5 mm) (14, 15: scale bar = 1 mm)