Braunsomeria TURNER 1912

Boni, M., 2011, Myzininae of the Old World The subtribe Braunsomeriina (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (1), pp. 363-380 : 371-372

Braunsomeria TURNER 1912

Typus generis: Braunsomeria quadraticeps TURNER 1912: 698-699

Braunsomeria TURNER 1912: 697

Braunsomeria: JACOT GUILLARMOD (1953: 15-16)

Braunsomeria: NAGY (1970: 188-189)

Warayoa ARGAMAN 1994: 91. Syn. Nov.

ARGAMAN (1994: 91) erected the new taxon name Warayoa citreosigna on the TURNER’ s male of B. quadraticeps . At the same time he proposed a new male (far different from it) for the female of the same taxon. Nevertheless he gave only a very brief description without any news about examined specimens, provenance area, date and depository, neither any ground of his action which accordingly appears somewhat mystic and not verifiable at all. From the data of the collection labels, with identity of collectors and collecting places of a lot of females and males specimens, well congeneric with Turner’s types, a strict coincidence of their distribution areas well emerges. Because of that and the advices of authoritative students, TURNER himself and JACOT GUILLARMOD, even though Turner does not explicitly refer about the grounds of their coupling, the most natural and correct action seems by far to restore and maintain the validity of his action, sinking the ARGAMAN’ s name Warayoa as synonym of Braunsomeria .

At the present state of the art it has not been possible to establish a well-grounded key for the males, since the scantiness of material precluded the detection of character states suitable to operate as morphological tools to perform it. Additive difficulty arises from the impossibility of unambiguous couplings between recorded males and females. It can be guessed that other species wait for description. Some males from Angola, Namibia, Botswana and Southern Africa have been examined.

All the females examined show a mat, finely sculptured 1st sternal surface and well differentiated, often prominent surfaces on terga and sterna, delimited by lighter stripes and row of p.