Mesembrius maculifer Hull, 1941 Figs 33, 73, 114, 135

Mesembrius maculifera Hull, 1941: 332.

Mesembrius maculifer - Smith and Vockeroth (1980): 504.

Differential diagnosis.

The female of Mesembrius maculifer cannot be confused with any other species by the reddish-brown colour of tergite II with a pair of cream-coloured slender maculae. The male is unknown.

Examined material.

Mesembrius maculifera Hull: Holotype, female, " Oriental forest // Fanovana, Dist. // Fianarantsoa // Madagascar " "I-V, 1937 // C Lamberton" "TYPE 6595 // Mesembrius // Mesembrius maculifera // F.M. Hull " " Mesembrius // Mesembrius maculifera // Hull n.sp." [ANSP]

Paratype: Madagascar • 1♀; Oriental Forest, Fanovana; date and collector unknown; CNC .

Re-description female

(Fig. 33). Body length: 11.2 mm. Wing length: 8.7 mm. (Only female paratype measured).

Head (Fig. 73). Eyes bare, dichoptic. Face chocolate-brown to mahogany-red. Frons with ventral 2/3 light yellow-brown pilose. Face very short reddish pubescent; sparsely long pale pilose. Ocellar triangle bare. Frontal triangle with a transverse band of dark pile. Occiput chocolate-brown to mahogany-red; thick dark brown pilose. Antenna dark reddish-brown; arista paler.

Thorax. Dull black; lateral margins and scutellum very dark red; pleurites black; reddish-orange pilose. Scutellum dull black; white pilose.

Legs. Predominantly black, the distal part of the pro- and mesolegs dark red; all tibiae dark red; all tarsi black dorsally, the hind pair rather flattened. Pile pale whitish on tarsi and tibiae.

Wing (Fig. 135). Proximal half of the wing deep brown, especially at the r-m crossvein.

Abdomen (Fig. 114). Dull black. Tergite II with a pair of prominent light-yellow maculae; white pilose anteriorly, light reddish pilose posteriorly. Tergite III and IV dark brown to black; light reddish pilose, but blackish on the middle of the posterior part.

Male.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Madagascar.