Mesa rufofemorata ( CAMERON 1905) Boni, 2013

Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1657-1744 : 1684

Mesa rufofemorata ( CAMERON 1905) comb.nov.

Plesia rufofemorata CAMERON 1905: 298 Holotypus - South Africa = /O’okiep 9.90/ /174/ / Plesia rufofemorata Cam. Type Dunbrody / / Holotype Plesia rufo-femorata Cameron/ Albany Museum.

Elis (Mesa) rufofemorata: TURNER (1912: 713) .

Plesia rufofemorata: JACOT- GUILLARMOD (1961: 3).

M a t e r i a l.. South Africa = (1) / Cape Province Ladismith 28 Sept. 1948 C.J. Guillarmod/ / Mesa rufofemorata (Cam) det 1949 C.J. Guillarmod/ BMNH; (2) /Augustfontein (Calvinia) C.P. – Mus. Exp. Sept. 1943 / / Mesa rufofemorata (Cam.) Det 1947 C.J. Guillarmod / /A003379/ SAM.. South Africa = (1) / Cape Province Ladismith 16 Sept. 1948 C.J. Guillarmod/ / Mesa rufofemorata (Cam) det 1949 C.J. Guillarmod/ BMNH; (1) / Cape Province Ladismith 27 Sept. 1948 C.J. Guillarmod/ / Mesa rufofemorata (Cam) det 1949 C.J. Guillarmod/ BMNH; (1) /Natal Eastcourt/ / Mesa reticulata/ BMNH; (5) /Augustfontein (Calvinia) C.P. – Mus. Exp. Sept. 1943 / / Mesa rufofemorata (Cam.) Det 1947 C.J. Guillarmod / /A003379/ SAM; (2) / South Africa, Western Cape, Travellers Rest, Sevilla, 32°04’374S 19°04’837E 328m 20.VIII.2007, R. Stanway, BE, pollinating Euphorbia mauritanica dry Mountain Finbos/ /Meria sp 3 Det Van Noort 2008/ /A021958-9/ SAM.

Female: figs 93-95 . Male: figs 96-98.

Sex association has been made in labels by JACOT- GUILLARMOD. Female has complete cOc, gradulus on 3 rd tergum, absence of longitudinal wrinkles on most of 6 th tergum. Male: opaque ventral edge of clypeus; neither lamina along fore border nor tooth on anteroventral corner of pronotum; rounded apical hind femur; bipunctate surface of terga; p on apical surface of 1 st sternum; notch of epipygium as deep as width of lateral lobes; ferruginous brown fore and mid legs; hind femur without light markings. Similar in general aspect and genitalia to M. spoliata (actually M. abdominalis ), from which is clearly known by opaque ventral border of clypeus, darker ferruginous colour of legs, no light spot on hind femur, no bipunctate surface of 2 nd and 3 rd terga and genitalia.

Figures

Figs 93-95: Mesa rufofemorata: (93) habitus; (94) basal hindtarsomerus; (95) epipygium. Figs 96-98: Mesa rufofemorata: (96) gonosquama; (97) volsella; (98) aedeagus; (93: scale bar: 5 mm; 94-95: scale bar: 1 mm; 96-98: scale bar: 0,5 mm).