Hylomesa Krombein, 1968

Liao, Xiang-Ping, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2022, A taxonomic revision of the subfamily Myzininae from China, with a key to the Chinese species (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae), Zootaxa 5154 (2), pp. 152-174 : 154-155

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Genus Hylomesa Krombein, 1968

Hylomesa Krombein, 1968: 3–7 . Type species: Myzine tricolor Smith, 1858 , by original designation of Krombein, 1968, Proc. Nati. Muse. 124: 3.

Notes. The genus Hylomesa contains 10 species and one subspecies worldwide, among these eight species and one subspecies are distributed in the Oriental Region, one in the Afrotropical Region and one in the Palearctic Region. One species was recorded from China by Tsuneki (1986). In this study, four species were collected, including one new species and two new records.

Diagnosis. Female. Head more or less square ( Figs 3 View FIGURES 1–8 , 10 View FIGURES 9–15 , 18 View FIGURES 16–24 , 28 View FIGURES 25–36 ) in dorsal view; mandible ( Figs 2 View FIGURES 1–8 , 17 View FIGURES 16–24 ) with a stout subapical tooth on inner margin; clypeus ( Figs 2 View FIGURES 1–8 , 17 View FIGURES 16–24 ) with weak to strong median carina; occipital carina complete dorsally; mesosoma ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–8 ) considerably longer than wide; pronotum ( Figs 4 View FIGURES 1–8 , 11 View FIGURES 9–15 , 19 View FIGURES 16–24 , 29 View FIGURES 25–36 ) comparatively longer than in Mesa , sometimes apically with strongly transverse carina; anterior surface of mesopleuron ( Figs 5 View FIGURES 1–8 , 20 View FIGURES 16–24 ) more or less concave; propodeum ( Figs 6 View FIGURES 1–8 , 12 View FIGURES 9–15 , 22 View FIGURES 16–24 , 31 View FIGURES 25–36 ) with a median cuneate groove; T1 ( Figs 7 View FIGURES 1–8 , 14 View FIGURES 9–15 , 23 View FIGURES 16–24 , 33 View FIGURES 25–36 ) usually with strongly transverse carina; T6 ( Figs 8 View FIGURES 1–8 , 15 View FIGURES 9–15 , 24 View FIGURES 16–24 , 35 View FIGURES 25–36 ) with dense to sparse punctures and not longitudinally striate as in Mesa .

Male. Head ( Fig. 26 View FIGURES 25–36 ) not square as in female; clypeus almost same as in female, but median carina weaker; pronotum ( Fig. 30 View FIGURES 25–36 ) anteriorly strongly carinate; mesopleuron without anterior carina and not produced anteriorly in middle; propodeum ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 25–36 ) with carina between dorsal and posterior surfaces; T1 ( Fig. 34 View FIGURES 25–36 ) anteriorly weakly to strongly carinate; inner margin of hind coxa carinate; length of S7 0.4–0.5× less than length of the T7 ( Fig. 36 View FIGURES 25–36 ) in lateral view.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Tiphiidae

Loc

Hylomesa Krombein, 1968

Liao, Xiang-Ping, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing 2022
2022
Loc

Hylomesa

Krombein, K. V. 1968: 7
1968
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