Mesa capitata ( SMITH 1855)

Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1657-1744 : 1680

Mesa capitata ( SMITH 1855)

Myzine capitata SMITH 1855: 74 . Lectotypus (here designated in order to ensure the name proper and consistent use): South Africa = / Int. S. Africa – 43 19 (on the reverse)/ (rounded) / capitata Sm Type / /Type/ (rounded with red outer ring) BMNH!

Myzine clavata SAUSSURE 1892: 242.

Elis ( Mesa ) auriflua TURNER 1912: 705.

Elis (Mesa) capitata: Turner (1926: 107) .

Mesa capitata: JACOT GUILLARMOD (1953 : &).

M a t e r i a l.. South Africa = (1) / Mamathes Basutoland 13.1.1946 C. Jacot Guillarmod / / Mesa capitata (Smith) det 1947 C.J. Guillarmod / BMNH; (1) / Basutoland Mamathes 13-I.1948 Miss M.H. Mann / / Mesa capitata (Smt) det 1949 C.J. Guillarmod / BMNH; (2) South Africa Trsvl Mooketsi 14-18.Feb. 1966 Krombein & Spangler / USNM; (2) / RSA Mpumalanga 20 km SW lidenbrug 20-30.XI.2003 J. Halada leg/ OLML; (1) / Orange free State Chicago Lindley dist. 1.1- 10.1 1949/ / Mesa capitata (Smith) det 1949 CJ Guillarmod / /A003286/ SAM .

. South Africa = (1) / Mamathes Basutoland 28.XII.1945 C. Jacot Guillarmod / / Mesa capitata (Smith) det 1947 C.J. Guillarmod / BMNH; (1) / Orange free State Chicago Lindley dist. 1.1-10.1 1949/ / Mesa capitata (Smith) det 1949 CJ Guillarmod/ /A003286/ SAM. Zimbabwe = (7) / Zimbabwe 50 km S. Bulawayo Matobo 3-5.12.98 leg. Marek Halada / OLML .

Female: figs 56- 59 Male: figs 60-61.

Female has high and polished pronotal plate and darkened wings. Males in general aspect and genitalia are very close to M. adelogamia . They differ in having dark opaque ventral border of clypeus, SCF as large as about 2/3 thickness of flagellomeri. The authority for their acknowledgment is JACOT- GUILLARMOD, who established both the synonymy with M. clavata and the sex association through the specimens he labelled. Female shows gradulus on 3 rd tergum too.

N o t e. Turner himself wrote about poor conditins of the type, lacking wings too.

Figures

Figs 56-59: Mesa capitata: (56) habitus, (57) clypeus frontal aspect, (58) pronotum, latero dorsal aspect, (59) basal hindtarsomerus. Figs 60-61: Mesa capitata: (60) gonosquama, (61) volsella.