Mesa ametalla (TURNER 1911) comb.nov. Elis (Mesa) ametalla TURNER 1911: 305 – Lectotypus (here designate to ensure proper name and consistent use) Malawi = / Nyasaland Mlanjie Boma 3400 ft 26-30 April & 3-5 May 1910 S.A. Neave/ /1910-353/ / Plesia ametalla Turn. Type / (autographic /Type/ (rounded with red outer ring) BMNH! M a t e r i a l.. Malawi = / Nyasaland Mlanjie march 20 1913 S.A. Neave/ /1913-140/ BMNH. Male: figs 132-134. N o t e TURNER in its original diagnosis wrote "Almost certainly the male of E. innotata, Turn., which was taken in considerable numbers, at the same time. E. heterogamia, Sauss., a larger species, also occur more sparingly in the same locality". Unfortunately he gave no news about examination of the type of the former and J.C. GUILLARMOD, who performed a lot of sex association for austral taxa, did not refer anything about too, so that the coupling can not be confirmed. Males ascribed to M. heterogamia are definitively different from it. Female unknown.

Published as part of Boni, M., 2013, Afrotropical taxa of the genus Mesa SAUSSURE 1892 (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Myzininae), pp. 1657-1744 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2) on page 1688, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5303357