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Mesa abdominalis (Guérin)
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Thynnoidea; Family:
Thynnidae; Subfamily: Myzininae; Genus:
Mesa)
Plesia abdominalis Guérin, 1838.
Lectotype in Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Genéve (MNHG). Type locality:
Cape, South Africa.
Mesa hottentotta
Saussure, 1892. Lectotype in Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Genéve (MNHG). Type locality:
Cape, South Africa. Synonymy by Boni Bartalucci, 2013.
Elis (Mesa)
spoliata Turner, 1912. Lectotype in The Natural History Museum,
London (BMNH). Type locality: Algoa Bay, South Africa. Synonymy by
Boni Bartalucci, 2013.
Elis (Mesa)
permutans Turner, 1935. Synonymy by Boni Bartalucci, 2013.
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Female. Left to
right clockwise: habitus; clypeus and lower head, frontal aspect;
head, ventral aspect; labium, ventral aspect; labium lateral
aspect. Photographs and illustrations © Mario Boni Bartalucci.
Male. Left to right: habitus; epipygium; gonosquama;
volsella; aedeagus. Photographs and illustrations © Mario Boni Bartalucci.
Specimens in SAMC
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Distribution
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South Africa. |
Biology |
Unknown. |
References |
Boni Bartalucci, M.B.
1997.
Contribution to the knowledge of the Myzininae (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae). Annali
del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 91: 615–639.
Boni Bartalucci, M.B. 2004.
Tribe-groups of the Myzininae with special regard to the palaearctic taxa of the
tribe Meriini (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae). Linzer
Biologische Beiträge 36: 1205–1308.
Boni Bartalucci, M.B. 2005.
Anthoboscinae and Myzininae (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae) from Madagascar. Linzer
Biologische Beiträge 37: 1077–1097.
Boni Bartalucci,
M.B. 2005. Third contribution to the knowledge of the Old World Myzininae
(Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo
Doria" [2004-2005] 96: 363-428.
Boni Bartalucci, M.B.
2007.
The Afrotropical genera of the subtribe Meriina (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae,
Myzininae). Linzer
Biologische Beiträge 39: 1257- 1305.
Boni Bartalucci, M.B. 2011.
Myzininae of the Old World. The subtribe
Braunsomeriina (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae). Linzer
Biologische Beiträge 43: 363-380.
Boni Bartalucci, M.B.
2013. Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa Saussure 1892 (Hymenoptera,
Tiphiidae, Myzininae). Linzer
Biologische Beiträge 45: 1657-1744.
Brothers, D.J. &
Finnamore A.T. 1993. Superfamily Vespoidea (pp. 161-278).
In
GOULET, H. & HUBER,
J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families.
Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.
Kimsey,
L.S.
1991. Relationships among the
tiphiid wasp subfamilies (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology 16:
427-438.
Kimsey, LS.
2011. Tiphiidae wasps of Madagascar (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae). Journal of
Hymenoptera Research 22: 45–68. doi: 10.3897/JHR.22.1142 |
Credits
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Photographs and illustrations © Mario Boni Bartalucci (Sezione di
Entomologia Museo Zoologico "La Specola"). Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South
Africa). |
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