Mesa nama, Boni, 2013

Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1657-1744 : 1695

Mesa nama nov.sp.

H o l o t y p u s - Namibia = / Namibia distr. Outjo Bergsattel 53 WSW Outjo 20°12’16S- 15°41’10E gps 1300-1400 m 19.02.1994 lg. H & R Rausch lf 94-32/ OLML.

figs 209-214 . Body size = 9 mm.

Black. Pale yellow: the whole of clypeus but semitransparent ventral edge; subapical Tsa; apical palpi; two narrow subapical stripes on N 1 disk; half tegula; most of LaSt 2; ventral surface of X 1, spots on X 2 and X 3; most of legs; very narrow apical stripe on 1 st to 5 th terga. and last metamerus are brown. Wings hyaline.

PoG area depressed. Mid flagellomeri with a ratio L / LA mor than 2.4. Em 3 mostly wrinkled. Fore border of N 1 disk bluntly angled but medially where a line of carina exists; only blunt prominence on its anteroventral corner; ratio LApos / Lmed about 2.5. Hind femur simple. Apical surface of 1 st sternum smooth and p -less. Tergal surface without secondary p. Last tergum noticeably tapering apically, with distinct epipygium by lateral carinae; very shallow median notch.

N o t e. Small species with angled volsella and tapered aedeagus.

Derivatio nominis. From the name of the people inhabiting SW Africa.

Female unknown

Figures

Figs 209-214: Mesa nama: (209) head, frontal aspect; (210) pronotum, dorsal aspect; (211) epipygium, dorsal aspect; (212) gonosquama;(213)volsella; (214)aedeagus; (209, 210: scale bar: 1mm; 211-214: scale bar: 0.5mm).