Zezelda ARGAMAN 1994

Bartalucci, M. Boni, 2007, The Afrotropical genera of the subtribe Meriina (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 39 (2), pp. 1257-1305 : 1288-1289

Zezelda ARGAMAN 1994

S p e c i e s t y p e Myzine stigma TURNER 1912

( Zezelda ARGAMAN 1994: 90 )

N o t e NAGY (=ARGAMAN) described a new species, ponderopardalis, ascribing it to Dermasothes MENOZZI 1941, on a specimen from Willowmore South Africa. GORBATOVSKY (1979) synonimized it with TURNER’ s taxon under the name Dermasothes stigmus, then (1981) he ascribed it to the genus Poecilotiphia . In both of the events he only listed the names without any commentary. ARGAMAN (1994) erected the new taxon name Zezelda basing it nominally on Myzine stigma as type species, without any connection and absolutely disregarding both his preceeding description and GORBATOVSKY’ s actions. None of them examined the type specimen at BMNH. ARGAMAN supplied the new taxon name with the only hint to "Last tarsal segment of male hind leg very much longer than penultimate one. Forewing without marginal cell and with only an enclosed submarginal cell. Female unknown. Diurnal ( Fig.59 )." Unfortunately he placed at first the new taxon name under the subfamily Iswariinae (item 19), whose he gave "Male antennal toruli vertical, confined to plane of front." as the main distinctive feature, then under the subordinate tribe Iswariini (item 21) featured by "Male hypostoma narrow, far removed laterally from base of mandibles, by basal width of a mandible." The first assertion is wrong since all the members of the entire complex (without any exception) of the Myzinid wasps have supra antennal lobes (Tsa) on lower frons and sub horizontal toruli on their ventral face, a synapomorphy shared with Thynninae, Pterombrus and males of Methochinae. Both of these character states do not correspond to the real type preserved at BMNH which has clearly developed Tsa, broad FoO and hypostoma with open mandibular sockets and without developed paramandibular process. The figure too

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by ARGAMAN does not correspond to the type, lacking Tsa and having too small ocelli (see the present key). Considering also that the ARGAMAN’ s description and proposition about Zezelda are unfortunately very much poor and shallow, strong doubt about his correct interpretation of the taxon well comes out.

Figures

Figs 54-63. Meriodes ceresensis (TURNER 1926) lectotypus: (54) head, frontal aspect, (55) mandible, apex; (56) labrum, ventrala aspect; (57: labrum, frontal aspect; (58) mesosoma, dorsal aspect; (59) wings. Meriodes picea nov.sp. paratypus: (60) head, frontal aspect; (61) clypeus, ventral outline in frontal aspect; (62) mandible, frontal aspect; (63) foretibial spur. (scale bar "a": 54, 58,59 = 1 mm; 55, 56, 57 = 0,5 mm) (scale bar "b": 60 = 2 mm; 61, 62 = 1 mm; 63 = 0,5 mm).