Meria dasymetopa nov.sp. Holotype Ƌ - South Africa = /CAP/ / capensis n.sp. Ss / (blue) /C.ne Saussure / / Tye / (red), MHNG Paratype Ƌ - - South Africa = /Hex river jan 9.84/ /C.ne Saussure/, MHNG Male. Holotype. Figs 103-110. Measurements: body length = 15 mm; forewing length = 8 mm. Black, brown, pale yellow. Wings hyaline. Brown: tip of mandible; legs but fore and mid coxae and yellow areas; lateroterga partially. Yellow: tip of Tsa; most of mandible and clypeus; two lateral spots along the fore border and a subapical stripe on N 1 disk; most of tegula; tarsi, most of tibiae, ventral and apical femurs, large spot on coxae; Apical stripe with largely indented fore edge on 1 st to 6 th terga and 2 nd to 6 th sterna; two lateral spots on 7 th tergum. Transparent ventral edge of clypeus. Hypostoma semitransparent brown, swollen but not breaking cOc which is complete. Secu stripe a bit larger than 2/3 thickness of flagellomeri. Em 3 smooth. Mid femur fore surface smooth and hairless. Hind coxa with a strong supplementary longitudinal laminated keel on its inner (postero) ventral edge; its inner dorsal keel irregular and less raised. Densely set fine p on the lower frons, Tsa, clypeus, most of N 1 disk and P, bearing long white hair which almost conceals underlying integument. More scattered fine p elsewhere with long hair not concealing integument. Declivitous subtriangular surface of 1 st sternum with densely packed p throghout. The paratype does not show significant differences. Female: unknown. Ecology: unknown. Derivatio nominis: from the Greek words δασύς = hairy and µέτωπον = frons, because of the hairy frontal head.

Published as part of Boni, M., 2009, Afrotropical species of the ancient genus Meria ILLIGER 1807 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae), pp. 1817-1861 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 41 (2) on pages 1837-1838, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5280195