Mesa angolensis BERLAND 1925

Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1657-1744 : 1690

Mesa angolensis BERLAND 1925

Mesa angolensis BERLAND 1925: 150 . T y p u s - Angola.

Elis ( Mesa ) euryclea TURNER 1926: 106.

Mesa angolensis : JACOT- GUILLARMOD (1953: 18).

M a t e r i a l.. Angola = (1) / Angola (A20) 10 mls Cacula 5.III.1972 / / Southern African Exp. 1972.1/ BMNH ; Malawi = (2) /Nyasaland Mlanje 10 feb 1914 S.A. Neave / /1914-416/ / Mesa angolensis Berland det 1947 C.J. Guillarmod / BMNH .

Female: figs 154-155 . Similar to M. xanthocera in general aspect, but it has larger size, brighter orange antennae, wearing out cOc near vertex. I follow the authority of Jacot Guillarmod about its identification.

Figures

Figs 154-155: Mesa angolensis:(154) habitus; (155) basal hindtarsomerus. Figs 156-157: Mesa herrero:(156) habitus; (157) basal hindtarsomerus. Figs 158-160: Mesa herrero: (158) gonosquama; (159) volsella; (160) aedeagus; (154, 156: scale bar: 5 mm; 155: scale bar: 1 mm; 157-160: scale bar: 0.5 mm).