Mesa adelogamia ( TURNER 1908)

Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1657-1744 : 1685-1686

Mesa adelogamia ( TURNER 1908)

Plesia (Mesa) adelogamia TURNER 1908: 503-504 - Lectotypus (here designated in order to ensure name proper and consistent use): South Africa = / Maseru, Basutoland / BMNH.

Elis (Mesa) adelogamia: TURNER (1912: 706) .

Mesa adelogamia : JACOT- GUILLARMOD (1953: 18).

M a t e r i a l.. South Africa = (1) / Mamathes Basutoland 20.11.1945 C. Jacot Guillarmod / / Mesa adelogamia (Turn) det 1947 C.J. Guillarmod / BMNH; (1) / Pretoria Transvaal Jan 22 1922 / CUIC ; Zimbabwe = (1) / Zimbabwe 50 km S. Bulawayo Matobo 3-5.12.98 leg. Marek Halada / OLML; (1) / E. Zimbabwe Mutare Nyazura 20.XII.1998 lg M. Snižek / OLML.. South Africa = (1) / Hensleys ???? Basutoland 6.I.1948 C.J. Guillarmod / / Mesa adelogamia det 1949 C.J. Guillarmod / BMNH; (2) / South Africa Trsvl 5ml W Warmbad 24-25 Feb 1968 Krombein & Spangler / USNM .

Female: figs 105-107 . Male: figs 108-110.

Female very similar to M. capitata for the high polished pronotal plate, but it is well known from it by quite longer mouth parts and different scopa. Gradulus on 3 rd tergum. Red coloration of head, N 1 and Sc 1 can vary in extension.

Male too has similar genitalia to M. capitata , with narrow and short apical gonosquama, but it has semitransparent ventral border of clypeus (dark and opaque in M. capitata ) and more slender flagellomeri. Apparently confined to Austral Africa. Jacot Guillarmod is the authority for the sex association.

Figures

Figs 105-107: Mesa adelogamia: (105) habitus; (106) clypeus, frontal aspect; (107) basal hindtarsomerus. Figs 108-110: Mesa adelogamia: (108) gonosquama; (109) volsella: 110 aedeagus; (105: scale bar: 5 mm; 107: scale bar: 1 mm; 106, 108-110: scale bar: 0,5 mm).