Mesa donaldsoni ( FOX 1896)

Mesa donaldsoni ( FOX 1896)

Cosila donaldsoni FOX 1896: 549 . T y p u s - Somalia. Elis ( Mesa ) aliciae TURNER 1912: 704-705. Elis ( Mesa) donaldsoni: TURNER (1913: 737) . Xylunka donaldsoni: ARGAMAN (1994: 90) . Elis ( Mesa) donaldsoni: BONI BARTALUCCI (2004a: 369-371 figs 4-13). M a t e r i a l.. Tanzania = (1) /Tanganyika Shinyanga Makumbo 12.4.1956 A.D. Robertson 192/

/ prep by Com? Ent B.M. 1963-4/ / Elis ( Mesa ) aliciae Turn G.E.S. Nixon det.1972/ BMNH.. Kenya = (6) / Kenya Kilagumi Tsavo 27.XI.1972 Coll. A. Mochi / USNM ; Somalia = (1) / Somalia

Sar Uanle programma litorale 1 trans A trapp. Data 3.XI.71 ore 18 Zona2 Direz. T/ MZUF; Tanzania

(?) = (1) /Ostafrika Jkutha/ NHMW; (1) / Tanzania Mkomazi Game Reserve , Kamakota hill 4°14’S

38à24E 4 Dec 1995, S. Van Noort, On Ficus ingens (Miq.) Miq. with ripe fig crop/ /SAM-HYM

AO17967/ SAM.

Female: figs 87-89 View Figs 87-89 . Male: figs 90-92.

Large sized. Female with worn out cOc near vertex and bright ferruginous last two metameri. Male characterized by sub-parallel sided pronotum in dorsal aspect, stout metasoma, prominent epipygium with shallow notch on 7 th tergum, strongly angled volsella. TURNER established the synonymy with his E. ( M.) aliciae. The new records strengthen the sex association made by BONI BARTALUCCI (2004a). Apparently confined to Equatorial Eastern Africa (Southern Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania).