Afrotropical species of the ancient genus Meria ILLIGER 1807 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae) Boni, M. Linzer biologische Beiträge 2009 2009-12-18 41 2 1817 1861 (GUERIN 1837) Boni 2009 GUERIN 1837 [178,491,1353,1375] Leotiomycetes Hemiphacidiaceae Meria GBIF Fungi Helotiales 21 1838 Ascomycota species servillei comb. nov.  M a t e r i a l Ƌ - South Africa= (1) /CAP/ /Servillei Guer Broch, Myz. p10/, MHNG. Male. Neotype. Figs 70-76. Measurements: body length = 15 mm. Here the very brief Guérin’s description: "Tête et antennes noires sans taches. Thorax noir avec deux petites stries jaunes interrompues sur le prothorax. Ailes transparentes, incolores; pattes fauves avec les cuisses noires; abdomen noir avec le bord fauve; le premier segment ayant une bande et les autres trois taches postérieurs jaunes. Dessous sans taches, avec le bord postérieur des segment brunatre. Longueur, 16 millimetres. Du Cap". The specimen here named neotypeshows the following small differences from his description: mostly yellow clypeal disk, a small spot on Es 2and LaSt 2, fore coxa, a spot on mid and hind coxae, lateral spots on 7 thtergum, yellowish narrow apical, laterally indented, stripes on 2 ndto 6 thsterna too. The most significative difference is the presence of the yellowish stripes on the sterna, since the other ones concern morphological particulars that Guérin regularly overlooked in the descriptions. The basic body colour of the head and mesosoma is black, of metasoma brown. The distal half of 2 ndto 6 thsterna is ferruginous brown, but the narrow area between indentation which is as brown as basal half of the metameri. PoGshort but clearly expressed and quite swollen together with hypostomal basis. cOccomplete. Secustripe covering all the thickness of flagellomeri. Fore border of N 1with a lamellar keel just on the mid and worn out laterally where it becomes blunt. Back half of Em 3finely wrinkled. Anteroventral corner of Proughly wrinkled. Fore (inner) surface of mid femur almost completely set with very weak pand hair. Longitudinal strong lamellar keel along inner ventral edge of X 3. Gradulus on 2 ndto 6 thtergum. Gradulus on 7 thtergum irregular and worn out laterally. It lacks last three right and ten left flagellomeri. The other specimen shows a continuous subapical stripe on N 1disk and lacks seven right and three left flagellomeri. [329,500,1392,1412] MHNG SouthAfrica & S. B Myzine & Spin & Peringuey Cap & Type 21 1838 1 neotype