Mesa herrero ( TURNER 1935) Boni, 2013

Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1657-1744 : 1690-1691

Mesa herrero ( TURNER 1935) comb.nov.

Elis (Mesa) herrero TURNER 1935: 349-350 & Holotypus: Namibia = /Okahandja 27.i- 2.ii.1928 / /S.W. Africa R.E. Turner Brit. Mus. 1928-100/ / Elis herrero Type Turner / /Type/ (rounded with red outer ring) BMNH!

M a t e r i a l. Namibia = Paratypus: (1) /Okahandja 3-9.ii.1928 / /S.W. Africa R.E. Turner Brit. Mus. 1928-119/ / Paratype / (rounded with yellow outer ring) / Mesa herrero (Turner) det 1947 C.J. Guillarmod/ BMNH!

. Namibia = Paratypes: (1) / Okahandja 17-23.ii.1928 / / S.W. Africa R. E. Turner Brit. Mus. 1928- 144/ / Type / (rounded with red outer ring) / Elis (Mesa) herero (sic!) Allotype Turner / BMNH!; (1) / Okahandja 17-23.ii.1928 / / S.W. Africa R. E. Turner Brit. Mus. 1928-144 / / Paratype / (rounded with yellow outer ring) / Mesa herero (sic!) (Turn) det 1947 C.J. Guillarmod / BMNH; (1) / SW Africa Sehenna 18.II. 34 L. Ogilvie B.M. 1934-148/ BMNH .

Female: figs: 156-157.

HT and examined female PT show acute tip of mandibles and ventral border of clypeus with three distinct notch, while the other examined female show consumed mandibles and even clypeal border, the notches worn out by usage.

Male: figs 158-160

Pale yellow: spot on clypeal disk, base of mandible, subapical pale yellow stripe on N 1 disk, apical femurs, dorsal tibiae, tarsi, apical stripe on 1 st to 5 th terga. Shallow notch on clypeus and epipygium. No laminated keel along foreborder and no anteroventral tooth of N 1 disk.

D i s t r i b u t i o n r a n g e: Namibia.