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Athalia marginipennis Enderlein

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

Athalia marginipennis Enderlein, 1920. Holotype in (ZMPA). Type locality: Nyembe-Bulungwa, Deutsch-Ostafrika (Tanzania).

Classification

Distribution

Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Host plants: Brassicaceae (Opitz et al. 2012).

References

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

Enderlein G. 1920. Symphytologica II. Zur Kenntnis der Tenthrediniden.
Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, Berlin 9[1919](9): 347-374.

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 © 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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