Meria discussa Guiglia 1973
Creators: name: Liao, Xiang-Ping
name: Chen, Bin
name: Li, Ting-Jing
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Tiphiidae
Meria
Meria discussa

description: Meria discussa Guiglia, 1973
(Figs 63–70)
Meria discussa Guiglia, 1973, Annali Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Genov. 79: 272–273; Gorbatovsky, 1980, Nase. Mong. 7: 317–320; Nonnaizab, 1999: 370; Boni Bartalucci, 2004a, Linzer boil. Beitr. 36(2): 397–399; Boni Bartalucci, 2016, Onyc. 12: 59.
Meria investiganda Guiglia, 1973, Annali Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Genov. 79: 273–274. Synonym of Meria discussa by Gorbatovsky, 1980, Nase. Mong. 7: 317.
Meria perfecta Guiglia, 1975, Boll. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Venezia, 27: 105. Synonym of Meria discussa by Gorbatovsky, 1980, Nase. Mong. 7: 317.
Meria similis Guiglia, 1975, Boll. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Venezia, 27: 106. Synonym of Meria discussa by Gorbatovsky, 1980, Nase. Mong. 7: 317.
Material examined. 16♂, CHINA, Gansu Province, Jiuquan City, Suzhou District, Sandun Town, Jiabiangou Village, 39°51′10.7″N, 98°48′32.4″E, 1346 m, 18. VI.2019, Xue Zhang (CNU); 2♂, CHINA, Gansu Province, Jiuquan City, Suzhou District, Majiacaowan, 39°38′9.6″N, 98°25′37.2″E, 1700 m, 23. VI.2019, Xue Zhang (CNU); 18♂, CHINA, Gansu Province, Zhangye City, Linze County, Qilian Mountain, 39°4′4.8″N, 100°2′49.1″E, 1631 m, 28. VI.2019, Xue Zhang (CNU); 4♂, CHINA, Gansu Province, Zhangye City, Linze County, Banqiao Town, Dongwan Village, 39°16′55.1″N, 100°17′13.2″E, 1415 m, 25. VI.2019, Xue Zhang (CNU); 3♂, CHINA, Gansu Province, Jiuquan City, Suzhou District, Yinda Town, Xiba Village, 39°54′10.7″N, 98°33′46.7″E, 1424 m, 19. VI.2019, Xue Zhang (CNU); 3♂, CHINA, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Shizui City, Chonggang Town, Xiamiao Village, Helan Mountain, 38°50′34.8″N, 106°10′26.4″E, 1108 m, 19. VII.2020, Qian Han (CNU); 5♂, CHINA, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Shizui City, Dawukou District, Goukou Village, 39°2′41.9″N, 106°28′37.1″E, 1108 m, 18. VII.2020, Yujiang Yao (CNU); 15♂ 6♀, CHINA, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Bayingol Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, Luntai County, Lunnan Town, 41°20′6″N, 84°12′17.9″E, 928 m, 2.VIII.2019, Tingjing Li (CNU); 10♂, CHINA, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Aksu County, Alaer City, Beshtugmen, 41°0′7.19″N, 80°24′10.7″E, 1078 m, 31. VII.2019, Qian Han (CNU); 3♀, CHINA, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Jimusaer County, Ergong Town, Dongliang Village, 43°58′33.6″N, 89°14′13.1″E, 755 m, 18. VII.2019, Lingzhi Zhao (CNU); 2♂, CHINA, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Wulasitai S 228, 45°7′15.6″N, 90°6′21.5″E, 1181 m, 19. VII.2019, Tingjing Li (CNU); 1♂, CHINA, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Tarbagatay Prefecture, Mongolian Autonomous County of Hoboksar, Motege Town, Motege village, 46°48′54″N, 85°48′18″E, 1181 m, 23. VII.2019, Tingjing Li (CNU); 1♂, CHINA, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Wenquan County, Artsy Pastoral Team, 45°2′13.1″N, 81°0′28.7″E, 1479 m, 25. VII.2019, Lingzhi Zhao (CNU); 1♂, CHINA, Inner Mongolia, Alashan Youqi, 39°12′56.1″N, 101°39′54.8″E, 1502 m, 30. VII.1988, the collector is unspecified (CNU).
Diagnosis. Female (Fig. 63). Head 1.4× wider than high (from the vertex to the base of the clypeus) in frontal view (Fig. 65); anterior margin of clypeus (Fig. 65) straight; genal bridge absent; OOD: POD = 1.1; A12: A11 = 1.25–1.5; pronotum dark brown to black, and width of posterior margin 1.8× length of anterior to posterior margin; dorsum of propodeum laterally and upper portion of side with dense striae, and medially largely smooth; each of T1–T5 (Fig. 68) subapically with a row of punctures and medially absent forming incomplete groove; T2–T4 (Fig. 68) laterally with light spots, the distance between two lateral spots more than the length of the spot.
Male (Fig. 64). Clypeus wholly with sparse punctures; vertex with dense to moderate punctures, POD 1.1× OOD; pronotal anterior carina present and medially minutely absent, dorsum of pronotum (Fig. 67) sparsely punctate; lateral side of pronotum (Fig. 66) ventrally striate; ventral surface of mid femur smooth, without punctures nor setae; each of T1–T6 except base yellow; T3–T5 (Fig. 69) basally with sparse punctures, apically impunctate and smooth; T7 (Fig. 70) only basally with a few sparse and shallow punctures, apex with deep notch, and tipped lobes narrowly rounded.
Distribution. China (Gansu, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia); Mongolia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Kazakhstan; Pakistan.
description: Published as part of Liao, Xiang-Ping, Chen, Bin & Li, Ting-Jing, 2022, A taxonomic revision of the subfamily Myzininae from China, with a key to the Chinese species (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae), pp. 152-174 in Zootaxa 5154 (2) on pages 167-168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6641314