Mesa eriosoma, Boni, 2013

Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1657-1744 : 1693-1694

Mesa eriosoma nov.sp.

H o l o t y p u s - Namibia = / Namibia Lüderitz Scorpion hill 27°49’S 16°36’E 09- 12.VIII.1997 Marais & Kirk-Spriggs Malaise trap/ /NNIC.

Holotype. figs 188-193. Body size: 13.5 mm.

Black. Pale yellow: the whole of clypeus but semitransparent ventral edge; subapical Tsa; apical palpi; two lateral subapical stripes on N 1 disk; half tegula; most of LaSt 2; ventral surface of coxae, tarsi and most of legs; narrow apical stripe on 1st to 6 th terga; two lateral apical stripes on 2 nd to 6 th sterna. Wings hyaline.

PoG about half FoO. Mid flagellomeri with a ratio L / LA mor than 2.4. No keel along fore border neither tooth on antero ventral corner of N 1 disk. Em 3 with strong wrinkles along the smm. Hind femur with a distinct ventral longitudinal lamella apically. 1 st to 5 th tergal surfaes bipunctate by sparse large p among very small p. Epipygium short and prominent upon the remainder of 7 th Te with very shallow median notch. Very long dense hair (longer than mid flagellomeri) on most of head and mesosoma, covering underlying integument on clypeus, frons, pronotal disk, Es 1, Es 2 and P. Long hair also on tergal surface.

N o t e. Distinct by the dense long hair on head and mesosoma and very narrow gonosquama.

Derivatio nominis. From the Greek words ȑȡȚȠȞ = wool and ıȫμĮ = body because of the dense hair on the head and mesosoma.