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Athalia fuscata Konow

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

Athalia fuscata Konow, 1907. Holotype in the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH). Type locality: Mt. Kinango, Aberdare Range, Kenya.

Classification
 

Distribution

Kenya, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Adults were repeatedly observed on Selago dinteri Rolfe (Scrophulariaceae, Lamiales) on the plateau of the Waterberg (Koch et al. in press). Based on biochemical analyses Opitz et al. (2012) determined plant species of Lamiales as host plants.

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.

Konow, F.W. 1907. Neue Argides. (Hym.). Zeitschrift für systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie, Teschendorf bei Stargard i. Mecklenburg 7 (4): 306–309.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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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