Mesa donaldsoni ( FOX 1896)

Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1657-1744 : 1684

Mesa donaldsoni ( FOX 1896)

Cosila donaldsoni FOX 1896: 549 . T y p u s - Somalia. Elis ( Mesa ) aliciae TURNER 1912: 704-705. Elis (Mesa) donaldsoni: TURNER (1913: 737) . Xylunka donaldsoni: ARGAMAN (1994: 90) . Elis (Mesa) donaldsoni: BONI BARTALUCCI (2004a: 369-371 figs 4-13). M a t e r i a l.. Tanzania = (1) /Tanganyika Shinyanga Makumbo 12.4.1956 A.D. Robertson 192/

/ prep by Com? Ent B.M. 1963-4/ / Elis ( Mesa ) aliciae Turn G.E.S. Nixon det.1972/ BMNH.. Kenya = (6) / Kenya Kilagumi Tsavo 27.XI.1972 Coll. A. Mochi / USNM ; Somalia = (1) / Somalia

Sar Uanle programma litorale 1 trans A trapp. Data 3.XI.71 ore 18 Zona2 Direz. T/ MZUF; Tanzania

(?) = (1) /Ostafrika Jkutha/ NHMW; (1) / Tanzania Mkomazi Game Reserve , Kamakota hill 4°14’S

38à24E 4 Dec 1995, S. Van Noort, On Ficus ingens (Miq.) Miq. with ripe fig crop/ /SAM-HYM

AO17967/ SAM.

Female: figs 87-89 . Male: figs 90-92.

Large sized. Female with worn out cOc near vertex and bright ferruginous last two metameri. Male characterized by sub-parallel sided pronotum in dorsal aspect, stout metasoma, prominent epipygium with shallow notch on 7 th tergum, strongly angled volsella. TURNER established the synonymy with his E. (M.) aliciae. The new records strengthen the sex association made by BONI BARTALUCCI (2004a). Apparently confined to Equatorial Eastern Africa (Southern Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania).

Figures

Figs 87-89: Mesa donaldsoni: (87) habitus; (88) mesosoma, particolar; (89) basal hindtarsomerus. Figs 90-92: Mesa donaldsoni: (90) labium, ventral aspect; (91) gonosquama; (92) volsella; (87: scale bar: 5 mm; 88, 89: scale bar: 1 mm; 90-92: scale bar: 0,5 mm).