Sawflies of Ethiopia (Hymenoptera: Argidae, Tenthredinidae)
Author
Koch, Frank
Author
Pauly, Alain
Author
Hora, Zewdu A.
Author
Boevé, Jean-Luc
text
Zootaxa
2015
4021
1
119
155
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4021.1.5
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1175-5326
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Athalia flavobasalis
Koch, 2007
Athalia flavobasalis
Koch, 2007
: 87
. Locus typicus:
Burundi
, Munanira.
Holotype
: ♂.
Burundi
, Munanira [
03°02'S
029°25'E
],
2200 m
,
01–14.I.1983
, A. Autrique (MNHN).
Ethiopian material.
Lake Tana, Bahar Dar [
11°36'N
037°23'E
] (
1 ♂
, 1 ♀), leg. Schäuffele (
SMNS
); Welega pr.,
1260 m
,
70 km
S Nekemte [ca
08°35'N
036°20'E
],
05.IV.2007
(1 ♀), leg. J. Halada (
OLML
); Sebeta,
08°54’N
038°35’E
,
2165 m
,
04.X.2010
, on
Ajuga integrifolia
flower, P3420 (1 ♀), leg. J.-L. Boevé & A. Pauly (
RBINS
).
Distribution.
Burundi
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
,
Ethiopia
,
Rwanda
,
Uganda
.
Host plant.
Brassicaceae (
Opitz
et al.
2012
)
.
Remarks.
The species was abundantly collected from
1981 to 1983
with yellow pan traps placed in potato fields in
Burundi
(
Chevin 1985
).
Chevin (1985)
misidentified the material as
A. himantopus truncata
.
Athalia truncata
differs from
A. flavobasalis
by the entirely yellow metepimeron, and in the shape of the apically subtruncate digitus (
Koch 2007: fig. 9b
). The phenology of this species based on the material from
Burundi
is illustrated by
Koch (2007)
, and it is concluded that the species is univoltine.