Afromeria, Boni Bartalucci, 2007

Bartalucci, M. Boni, 2007, The Afrotropical genera of the subtribe Meriina (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 39 (2), pp. 1257-1305 : 1274

Afromeria nov.gen.

S p e c i e s t y p e Myzine capicola TURNER 1913

Among the items of the key which identify the males of this genus from the nearest relatives, the charcter states 14 a, i, j, k could be considered valid autapomorphies. Eyes, flagellomeri, forecoxa and genitalia are like in Meria . The clypeal disk is strongly swollen. Hind coxa has a supplementary longitudinal keel running alog its ventral inner edge. Elsewhere the flattened bristles of the metasoma occur in Poecilotiphia , where they lack on terga more often than not, and Parameria, where they lack on 7 th tergum. The multiple deep transversal hollows and graduli and/or invaginations, on the metasoma, occur elsewhere in Parameria femorata, Myzine pinguis and Myzine braunsi TURNER 1912 . The character state 14i occurs somehow just in Parameria males, where otherwise the large semicircular hollow does not exist and no laterotergum can be known from the remainder of tergum.

The female character states of the key are based on a unique specimen from Namibia. Besides to formal convenience to avoid taxonomical crowd, its attribution to the female sex of A. microtera and to the new genus is purely arbitrary, inferred from its intermediary features among different genera, which are explained under the relative issue.

D e r i v a t i o n o m i n i s. From the synthesis of the praefix Afro- from Africanus with Meria . Gender feminine.

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Namibia and South Africa.