Mesa erythropoda ( TURNER 1908) Boni, 2013

Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1657-1744 : 1686-1687

Mesa erythropoda ( TURNER 1908) comb.nov.

Plesia (Mesa) erythropoda: TURNER (1908: 504-505) - Lectotypus (here designated in order to ensure name proper and consistent use): Botswana = / Lake Ngami / (rounded) / Plesia (Mesa) erythropoda Turner Type / /Type/ (red with red outer ring) BMNH! (described from two specimens).

Elis (Mesa) erythropoda: Turner (1912: 709-710) .

M a t e r i a l.. Malawi = (1) /Nyasaland Mlanje May 6 1913 S.A. Neave 1913-140/ / Mesa erythropoda (Turn) det 1949 C.J. Guillarmod / BMNH; (1) / Nyaka P.F. Afr. RF Lawrence – Feb 1924 / / Sam. Hym. A 002581/ BMNH ; Zimbabwe = (1) / Saw Mills S. Rhodesia 27/12/1923 Rhod. Museum / / Mesa erythropoda (Turn) det 1950 C.J. Guillarmod / / South African Museum ex national Museum Bulawayo / / Sam Hym A 003364/ SAM ;. Zimbabwe = (1) / Saw Mills S. Rhodesia 27/12/1923 Rhod. Museum / / Mesa erythropoda (Turn) det 1950 CJ Guillarmod / / South African Museum ex national Museum Bulawayo / / Sam Hym A 003364/ SAM; (1) / Sawmills S. Rhodesia 12.12.1926 G. Arnold / / Mesa erythropoda (Turn) det 1950 CJ Guillarmod // Sam Hym A 003368/ SAM .

Female: figs 115 -118. Male: figs 119-120.

TURNER (1912) refers to further records from Lake Ngami.

Female. Mandibles and antennae light brown, bright ferruginous legs but coxae. cOc complete even though a bit irregular along vertex. Gradulus present on 3 rd and 4 th tergum. Well distinct species by bright ferruginous legs and mat aspect for the presence of only shallow sparse p everywhere.

Male. Clypeus with dark ventral edge and broad shallow notch. Bipunctate surface of tergal surfaces. Very peculiar gonosquama (similar pattern only shown by M. eriosoma ). Epipygium with distinct apical notch as deep as width of lateral lobes. Ivory white light marking: transversal spot on tip of Tsa, mid clypeus and at the base of mandibles; subapical thin stripe on N 1 disk; LaSt 2; tip of femurs, dorsal tibiae and tarsi; thin apical stripe on 2 nd to 6 th terga and two small apical spots on the sides of 5 th and 6 th sterna.

Apparently confined to Austral Africa.

Figures

Figs 115-116: Mesa erythropoda: (115) habitus; (116) propodeum, dorsal aspect; (117) basal hindtarsomerus; Mesa erythropoda: (118) pronotum, dorsal aspect; (119) gonosquama; (120) volsella; (115: scale bar: 5 mm; 116, 117, 118: scale bar: 1 mm; 119, 120: scale bar: 0.5 mm).