Mesa maliana, Boni, 2013

Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1657-1744 : 1695

Mesa maliana nov.sp.

H o l o t y p u s - Mali = / Mali Outaguna 7.X.1976 K. Guichard/, BMNH.

P a r a t y p u s - Mali = / MALI Watasouna VII.78 G.P./ BMNH.

Holotype: figs 201-208 . Body size: = 11 mm.

Black. Ventral flagellum is brown. Yellow: basal mandible; tip of last flagellomerus; ventral half of clypeus but semitransparent edge; subapical Tsa with semitransparent edge; subapical stripe on N 1 disk; perimetral border of LaSt 2; ventral X 1; apex of femurs;, most of tibiae;, tarsi; apical stripe with waving fore edge on 1 st to 6 th terga; two small lateral spots on 2 nd to 5 th sterna. Wings hyaline.

Flagellum short, mid flagellomeri with a ratio L / LA about 1.8, stripe of Secu more than 100% thickness of elements. N 1 disk with a ratio LApos / Lmed about 3.4; fore border of its disk with a ridge worn out medially; no anterovantral tooth. Tergal surface not bipunctate. Ventral petiole with a longitudinal dhallow furrow. Apical 1 st sternum with few p. Epipygium with a shallow notch and strong lateral ridges delimiting it from lateral surfaces. Volsella moderately angled.

N o t e. Small species, distinct by short flagellum and large narrow N 1, besides genitalia.

Derivatio nominis. From the typical locality.

Female unknown

Figures

Figs 201-208: Mesa maliana: (201) head, dorsal aspect; (202) head, frontal aspect; (203) flagellum; (204) pronotum, dorsal aspect; (205) epipygium; (206) gonoaquama; (207) volsella; (208) aedeagus; (203: scale bar: 2 mm; 201, 202, 204: scale bar: 1mm; 205-208: scale bar: 0.5 mm).