Mesa pyrrhoprocta, Boni, 2013

Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1657-1744 : 1697-1698

Mesa pyrrhoprocta nov.sp.

H o l o t y p u s: Nigeria = /Olokemeji Ibadan Nigeria / /Bridwell Collection/ /From Coll. USNM/ USNM.

P a r a t y p e s: Gambia = (1) / Gambia Keneba Malaise IX-X.1975 M.C.D. Speight / BMNH ; Ivory Coast = (2) / Cote d’Ivore Bouaké VI.1983 A.B. Stam / BMNH ; Nigeria = (2) /Olokemeji Ibadan Nigeria / USNM .

P a r a t y p e s: Nigeria = (1) /Olokemeji Ibadan Nigeria / /Bridwell Collection/ /From Coll. USNM/ USNM; (1) /Olokemeji Ibadan Nigeria / USNM.

Female (Holotype): figs 231-233 . Size = 10 mm.

Black. Light brown: most of flagellum, mandible, tarsi. Brown: scape and legs. Ferruginous: apical narrow stripe on 2 nd and 3 rd, most of 4 th, the whole of 5 th and 6 th metameri. Wings hyaline.

Sparse p on head, mid pronotal disk, Sc 1, Sc 2, Es 1, ventral Es 2, Te and Ste. Mid Pronotal disk and Es 2 disk with denser p, often coalesced. Lateral N 1 with small short wrinkles. P: disk with often coalesced p; posteroir surface bipunctate by many small among sparser larger p; lateral surface with very fine wrinkles.

cOc worn out shortly about vertex. Gradulus present on 3 rd an 4 th Te too.

Male: figs 234-240. Body size = a bit less than 10 mm.

Black. Light brown: underside of flagellum. Brown: veins and pterostigma, dark portions

of the legs. Yellow: mandible, clypeus with semitransparent border; subapical stripe and anteroventral corner on N1, apical stripe on 2 nd to 6 th tergum.

Flagellomeri with a ratio L/A more than 2. Pronotal disk without laminated keel along its fore border and with a prominent tooth on its anteroventral corner. Epipygium with a broad shallow notch.

Derivatio nominis. From the Greek words ʌȣȡȡȩȢ = red and ʌȡȦțIJȩȢ = back

Figures

Figs 231-233: Mesa pyrrhoprocta: (231) habitus; (232)basal hindtarsomerus; (233) epipygium. Figs 234-240: Mesa pyrrhoprocta: (234) head, frontal aspect; (235) pronotum, dorsal aspect; (236) pronotum, lateral aspect; (237) epipygium, dorsal aspect; (238) gonosquama; (239) volsella; (240) aedeagus; (231: scale bar: 2.5mm; 232-233: scale bar: 1mm; 234-236: scale bar: 1 mm; 237- 240: scale bar: 0.5mm).