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Athalia brevicornis Benson

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea; Family: Athaliidae; Genus: Athalia)

Athalia brevicornis Benson, 1962. Holotype in the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Maseru, Basutoland (Lesotho).
Athalia limpopo Benson, 1962. Holotype in the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Delagoa Bay, Mozambique. Synonymy by Koch et al., in press.

Classification

Holotype in BMNH
 
Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
Photographs © Andrew D. Liston (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut).

Distribution

Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Benson R.B. 1962. A revision of the Athaliini (Hymenoptera: Athaliidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology 11 (7): 335-382.

Koch, F. 2010. Two new species of Athalia Leach, 1817 from southern Africa (Hymenoptera: Symphyta, Athaliidae, Athaliidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 120 (6): 1-3.

Koch F, Goergen G & van Noort S. 2015. The sawflies of Namibia and the western parts of South Africa (Symphyta, Hymenoptera). ABC Taxa 15: 1-262.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or © Andrew D. Liston (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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