Meria oriarcha, Boni, 2008

Boni, M., 2008, Contribution to the knowledge of the Palaearctic Meriini (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2), pp. 1367-1397 : 1375-1376

Meria oriarcha nov.sp.

Holotypus - Kirghizistan = /Kirg. – Ferghan, Mt R., Abash-Too Mts, Alash forest Coll. Gurmo 08-00/. OLML!

Paratypi - Kazakistan = (1) /Степъ М.С. Д и Т./ /C. ne de Saussure /, MHNG. Kirghizistan = (1) /Шагимарданъ/ / C. ne de Saussure /, MHNG. (1) / Kyr Kirghiz Mts Ala Archa riv. VI.1997 Coll V. Gurko /, OLML; (2) / Kir-fergansky Mt. R VI-2000 E-Urumbash riv. Cll. V. Gurko /; OLML (1), MZUF (1); (1) / Kyrghyzstan , Alai mt. R foothills near Kurshae 11.07.2000 Coll. I. V. Makogonova /, OLML; (3) Kirghiszky Mt. R. Ala Archa riv. Valley 17.08.2000 1650 m Coll. V. Gurko /, OLML; (1) / Kirgh-Ferghan Mt. R. Alash too Mts Alash forest Coll. Gurko 08/00/, OLML; (31) / Kirghizia Tshatkal Mt. R Shikaftar Coll. Gurko 07-01/, OLML (26), MZUF (5) .

Paratypi - Kazakistan = (1) / Kazakhstan mer Kaptzgai 100 km N Alma Ata 18.6.1995 M. Mucka /, OLML. Kirghizistan = (2) / Kirgyz. Kirg. Mt. Ala Archa river Kashashi VI.1999 Coll. V. Gurko /, OLML (1) ; MZUF (1); (1) / Kir-fergansky Mt. R VI-2000 E-Urumbash riv. Cll. V. Gurko /; OLML (1); (1) / Kirgh-Ferghan Mt. R. Alash too Mts Alash forest Coll. Gurko 08/00/, MZUF ; / Kirghizia Tshatkal Mt. R Shikaftar Coll. Gurko 07-01/, MZUF .

Male. Holotype. Figs 44-52 . Measurements (mm): body length = 15.

Black, brown, pale yellow.

Brown: legs but forecoxae, areas on LaSt 2, tip of mandible, ventral edge of clypeus, base of hypostoma, veins, lateroterga, epipygial lobes, anal hook (8 th sternum); scape and flagellum are darker brown.

Pale yellow: Most of mandible, four small spots on the clypeal disk, a subapical stripe on N 1 disk, one small spot on es 2, most of tegulae and humeral plates, small spots on mid and hind coxae, apical and ventral mid and hind femurs, apical half hindfemur, most of tibiae, tarsi, apical stripes (a little less than half the height of the elements) with substraight foreprofile on 1 st to 6 th terga, narrower with irregular foreprofile apical stripes on 2 nd to 6 th sterna and 7 th tergum.

Base of hypostoma and PoG swollen and getting cOc, which is unbroken. Stripe of Secu a little less than 1/3 thickness of the flagellum. Propleurae with a low but distinct broadly based subconical process. Foreborder of the N 1 disk keeled but without prominent lamella. Em 3 horizontally wrinkled. Anteroventral lateral P smooth and shining. P rounded, with hardly detectable distinction between horizontal and declivitous areas. Forewing slightly darkened, hindwing hyaline. Fore surface of mid femur completely smooth and hairless. sul present only on 1 st to 5 th tergum. Gradulus present on 2 nd to 7 th tergum. Lobes of epipygium (7 th tergum) longitudinally grooved.

Hair and p. like in M. tripunctata.

V a r i a b i l i t y Most of paratypesrange in length from 10 to 14 mm; two of them reach 16mm, one is only 8 mm. In some specimens P is dark brown.

Female. Paratype. Figs 53-55. Measurements (mm): body length = 8.5.

Black, brown, ferruginous and white.

Brown: Tsa, antennae, clypeus, shadows on N 1 disk, Last 2, legs and most of metasoma; semitransparent are hypostoma, mandible, tegulae, apical edge of N 1, veins and pterostigma, tarsi, apical 6 th tergum.

White: two lateral spots on 2 nd and 3 rd terga and two very small on 4 th one.

Wings darkened. The p. on T are sparse and roughly impressed.

Very poor variabilty has been detected about size.

D e r i v a t i o n o m i n i s From the Greek ορειάρχης =king (queen) of the mountains.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: North Eastern areas of the Turanic Region.

D i s c u s s i o n: The males has the general habitus of M. flava from which it is well distinct for the darker coloration, different clypeal ventral border, narrower Secu stripe, strongly different N 1 in dorsal and lateral aspect (lacking too the strong lamellar keel of the latter), slightly different epipygium where the lobes are diverging apically instead of parallel, different volsella and aedeagus.

The females differs from the other females of the genus in the peculiar ventral border of the clypeal disk and more roughly impressed p. on T. From M. sanguinicollis and M. askhabadensis they are also severed by the smaller size, different head shape, black Sc 1, very shallow and short median furrow on propodeal disk; from the latter also in the black colour of the head and mesosoma and smaller white spots on T.

Figures

Figs 44-52: Meria oriarcha nov.sp. Holotype. (44) head, frontal aspect; (45) head, dorsal aspect; (46) flagellum; (47) pronotum, dorsal aspect; (48) pronotum, lateral aspect; (49) basal metameri, dorsal aspect; (50) 7 th tergum, dorsal aspect; (51) gonostylus and volsella; (52) aedeagus. Figs 53- 55: Meria oriarcha nov.sp. Paratype. (53) head, frontal aspect; (54) mesosoma, dorsal aspect; (55) basdal metameri, dorsal aspect.