Mesa asmarensis ( TURNER 1909) Boni, 2013

Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1657-1744 : 1687

Mesa asmarensis ( TURNER 1909) comb.nov.

Plesia (Mesa) asmarensis TURNER 1909: 481-482 . Lectotypus - Erythrea = /Asmara Eritrea VI/ / Plesia asmarensis Turn. Type / (autographic) /Turner Coll. 1909-49/ /Type/ (rounded with red outer ring) / Lectotypus Plesia asmarensis Turner Design. Gorbatovsky 1981 / / Mesa asmarensis (Turn) Gorbatovsky det. 1987/ BMNH!

Elis (Mesa) asmarensis: TURNER (1912: 712) . M a t e r i a l. Ethiopia = (1) / Etiopia Illubabor Loc 79 Dintorni di Buré (o Burò) m 700-1800 28-29.X.1975 P. Brignoli leg/ MSNP.. Ethiopia = (2) / Ethiopia Sardo 29.VII.46 K.M. Guichard BM 1946-39/ BMNH.

Female: figs 121-122 . Male: figs 123-126.

The female specimen is ascribed to this taxon just on the base of geographical provenance. It is black with ferruginous last apical metameri; cOc complete; gradulus present on 3 rd and 4 th terga.

Male. Dark ventral border of clypeus, distinctly notched. Laminated fore border of pronotal disk. Aedeagus with a finger like apex.

Figures

Figs 121-122: Mesa asmarensis:(121) habitus; (122) basal hindtarsomerus. Mesa asmarensis: (123) clypeus, frontal aspect; (124) gonosquama, tip; (125) volsella; (126) aedeagus. Figs 127-128: Mesa saussurei: (127) general aspect; (128) basal hindtarsomerus; (121, 127: scale bar: 5 mm; 116, 122, 123, 128: scale bar: 1 mm; 124, 125, 126: scale bar: 0.5 mm).