Macromeria semirufa ( GERSTAECKER 1857) 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 : 1285-1286

Macromeria semirufa ( GERSTAECKER 1857) nov.comb.

Myzine (Pseudomeria) semirufa GERSTAECKER 1857: 512

H o l o t y p e: South Africa = /Tette Peters S./(grey) / TYPE /(pale red) /6252/ / semirufa Gerst */(pale blue), MNHU!

Myzine rufosplendida TURNER 1913: 729-730 nov.syn.

Myzine aterrima TURNER 1917: 351 nov.syn.

M a t e r i a l - Botswana = (1) / Botswana (88) L. Ngami, 2 mls NE Sehithwa 15-16.IV 1972 /, BMNH. South Africa = (2 /Masiene P.E. Africa R.F. Lawrence – Dec. 1923 / / Meria semirufa det 1949 J.C. Guillarmod/ /S.A Museum A003091/, SAM. Zimbabwe = (1) /Igusi S. Rhodesia 9.3.194 1 – National Museum S. Rhodesia / / Meria rufosplendida aterrima (Turn) det 1949 J.C.Guillarmod/ /S.A. Museum A 003185/, SAM; (1) /Victoria falls Dec 1938 National Museum S. Rhodesia / / Meria rufosplendida (Turn) det 1949 J.C.Guillarmod/ /S.A. Museum A003186/, SAM. Mozambique = / Meria semirufa Gerstack Mozambico D Gribodo/, MSNG.

- Botswana = (1) / Botswana (88) L.Ngami, 2 mls NE Sehithwa 15-16.IV 1972 /, BMNH. South Africa = (1) /Masiene P.E. Africa R.F. Lawrence – Dec. 1923 / / Meria semirufa det 1949 J.C. Guillarmod/ /S.A Museum A003091/, SAM. Zimbabwe = (3) /Igusi S. Rhodesia 9.3.194 1 – National Museum S. Rhodesia / / Meria rufosplendida aterrima (Turn) det 1949 J.C.Guillarmod/ /S.A. Museum A 003185/, South Africa = (1) /Coll. ne P. Magretti Africa da Gianelli/ /49/, MSNG.

N o t e. I could not find any difference between the males ascribed to M. semirufa and M. aterrima, apart the strongly reduced light coloration on the metasoma of the latter. In the females J.Guillarmod ascribed to M. rufosplendida aterrima the unique difference found was the absence of gradulus on 3 rd tergum, present in M. semirufa type, but this a variable state in Meria too, thence their synonimy is proposed.

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About the identity of M. rufosplendida, whose types I did not examine, the authority was J.Guillarmod who certainly examined types at TMP.

Distribution. The whole southern areas of the continent from Angola to Mozambique.