Macromeria klugii ( WESTWOOD 1835)

Bartalucci, M. Boni, 2007, The Afrotropical genera of the subtribe Meriina (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 39 (2), pp. 1257-1305 : 1284-1285

Macromeria klugii ( WESTWOOD 1835)

Meria klugii WESTWOOD 1835: 53 . Type (?): "apud Sierra Leone ",?.

M a t e r i a l: - South Africa = (2) /O’okiep Warden 18-9-1886 / /S.A.212 / /S.A. A003084/, SAM; (1) /Willowomore Capland Dr. Brauns 20.11.09/ /23/(red), BMNH; (1) /S. Africa Calvinia 11-16.XI.1931 / /S. Ogilvie/ /Pres. By IMP. INST: ENT B.M.1934-282/ / Macromeria klugi Westwood det. L.S. Kimsey/, BMNH. (1) /Clanwilliam Nardow S.A. Museum – Mus. Staff Sep. 1941 / / Meria klugii Westw. Det. C.J. Guillarmod 1940 / /A003086/, SAM.

- South Africa = (2) /O’okiep Warden 18-9-1886 / / S.A. 212 / / S.A. A003084/, SAM; (1) / Augustfontein (Caslvinia) C.P. – Mus. Exp. Sep. 1947 / / Meria klugii Westw. Det. C.J. Guillarmod 1940 / /A003087/, SAM. Namibia = (1) / Luderitz District 8 km W Rash Pinah 27°59’S 28°51’E 25.26 VIII 1998 Kirk-Spriggs E. Marais automatic pit trap / / NNIC /, NNMW .

Female. Figs 72-79A (specimen from O’okiep)

Male. Figs 85-92 (specimen from O’okiep)

TURNER (1913) ascribed his Myzine nigrita TURNER 1910 () to WESTWOOD’ S taxon. J. GUILLARMOD (1953) synonymized nigrita with Mesa capensis (LEPELETIER 1845) and gave the right sex association in labelling specimens at the South African Museums. The description of these males, based on the O’okiep specimen and hitherto never performed as far as I know, here follows.

Measurements. Body length = 18 mm

Black, brown and pale yellow.

Brown – Tip of mandibles, tibiae and tarsi.

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Pale yellow - Two very small lateral spots and one median narrow short stripe, often divided, along apical borders of 2 nd to 6 th terga.

Wings very slightly darkened apically

Clypeus with a straight ventral border and a small median notch. Distal flagellomeri wider than basal one. Flagelli short, their length about like the length of mesosoma (from tip of eN 1 to dP). Head 1.1 wider than high in frontal aspect. PoG well expressed, ¼ the length of FoO. Posterior border of Hy and FoO straight, forming a sub orthogonal angle with their longitudinal sides.

N 1 has a swollen foreborder with a median notch and a broad furrow just after it. Sc 2 swollen. P with a clear horizontal area severed from the sub vertical posterior one; the former presents laterally a large hollow. LaSt 2 not complanar, forming an obtuse angle at their contact line. X 3 with a clear angle between ventral and posteror (inner) surface, but without keel.

Declivitous surface of 1 st tergum forming an orthogonal angle with its upper horizontal surface in lateral aspect.

Dense, mostly without any space among them, well impressed p. throughout the head and mesosoma, scape and genae too, except smooth LaSt 2 and a smooth stripe along co on the temples. Ssa strongly wrinkled vertically. Declivitous P almost sculpturated by waving irregular wrinkles. Em 3 and ventral lateral area of P finely wrinkled. Every p. bearing brownish hair which is denser on the clypeus, frons, Es 2 and P.

Metameri with shallow more scattered p. and less dense hair.

Distribution. So far it appears to be limited to austral Africa and especially to its Southern and South Western areas. The original indication by Westwood "apud Sierra Leone " is obscure to me.

Figures

Figs 72-80. Macromeria klugii. (72) labium, ventral aspect; (73) labium, lateral aspect; (74) mandible; (75) fore wing, particular; (76) hind wing; (77) fore tibial spur; (78) hind tibial spurs; (79) basal hind tarsomerus, dorsal and lateral aspects; (80) claws fore leg. Figs 81, 82, 84. Meria. (81) mandible; (82) fore wing particular; (84) basal hind tarsomerus. Fig. 83. Meria: fore tibial spur. (Scale bar "a": 72, 73,77, 80 = 0,5 mm – 76 = 2,5 mm - 78, 84 = 1 mm - 74, 75, 79,81, 82 = 1,33 mm). (Scale bar "b": 83 = 0,25 mm).

Figs 85-92. Macromeria klugii. (85) Labium, ventral and lateral aspects; (86) 7 th tergum, dorsal aspect; (87) 7 th tergum, lateral aspect; (88) 8 th sternum (anal hook), dorsal and lateral aspects; (89) gonostylus and volsella; (90) aedeagus, lateral aspect; (91) aedeagus, apical aspect; (92) aedeagus, dorsal aspect. Figs 93-95. Meria volvulus. (93) aedeagus, lateral aspect; (94) aedeagus, apical aspect; (95) aedeagus, dorsal aspect. (85: scale bar = 0,5 mm) (86, 87: scale bar = 2 mm) (88 – 95 = scale bar 1 mm).