Meriodes braunsi ( TURNER 1912) Bartalucci, M. Boni, 2007

Bartalucci, M. Boni, 2007, The Afrotropical genera of the subtribe Meriina (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 39 (2), pp. 1257-1305 : 1278-1279

Meriodes braunsi ( TURNER 1912) nov.comb.

Myzine braunsi TURNER 1912: 700-701

H o l o t y p e: South Africa = /Willowmore 1-1-1902 Capland Dr. Brauns/ /Myzine braunsi Type Turner/ (autographic) / Type /(rounded with red outer ring) /Brauns Coll. 1912-44/ /BM Type Hym. 15.470/, BMNH.

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P a r a t y p e s: South Africa = (2) / Willowmore Capland , 10-03-1902 Dr Brauns / /Brauns Coll. 1912-44/ / Paratype /, BMNH; (1) / Willowmore Capland , 20-03-1902 Dr Brauns / /Brauns Coll. 1912-44/ / Paratype /, BMNH; (1) / Willowmore , Capland Dr Brauns / /Brauns Coll. 1912-44/ / Paratype /, BMNH .

M a t e r i a l - South Africa = (1) / Willowmore 5-1-1902 Capland Dr. Brauns / / Myzine braunsi Turner / / S. African Museum A 003172/, SAM; (1) / S.W.Africa Aust Jan 1930 / / R. E.Turner Brit. Mus. 1930- 117/, SAM

Male. Figs 40-44

Very similar to M. ceresensis in general habitus, size and coloration; it differs from the latter in the shape of the head and clypeal ventral border in frontal aspect, the placoids on the flagellomeri, N 1 disk in dorsal aspect, the presence of a deep colpus on 2 nd to 6 th terga and 3 rd to 6 th sterna (lacking in M. ceresensis ), larger semicircular hollow around spiracle on the sides of 7 th tergum, 7 th tergum in dorsal aspect and genitalia

Female. Unknown

D i s t r i b u t i o n.SouthAfrica

Figures

Figs 40-44. Meriodes braunsi (TURNER 1912). (40) head and pronotum, dorsal aspect; (41) head, frontal spect; (42) flagellum; (43) 7th tergum, dorsal aspect; (44) volsella and gonostylus. Figs 45-53A. Meriodes ceresensis (TURNER 1926). (45) head and N1, dorsal aspect; (46) head, frontal aspect; (47) flagellum; (48) N, lateral aspect; (49) fore tibial spur; (50) 1st tergum, dorsal aspect; 1 (51) 7 th tergum, dorsal aspect; (52) 7 th metamerus, lateral aspect; (53) gonostylus and volsella; 53A: aedeagus. (40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52: scale bar = 1 mm) (44, 49, 53, 53A: scale bar = 0,5 mm).