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Athalia ustipennis Mocsáry

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

Athalia ustipennis Mocsáry, 1909. Holotype in (HNHM). Type locality: Kilima-Ndjaro [Kilimanjaro], Arusha-Ju, Africa orientalis (Tanzania).

Classification

Distribution

Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, 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.

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.

Mocsáry, A. 1909. Chalastogastra nova in collectione Musei nationalis Hungarici. Annales historico-naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, Budapest 7: 1-39.

Opitz, S.E. W., Boevé, J.-L., Nagy, Z.T., Sonet, G., Koch, F. & Müller, C. 2012. Host shifts from Lamiales to Brassicaceae in the sawfly genus Athalia. PloS ONE 7(4): 1-18. e33649.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033649.

Credits

Photographs © B. Schurian.

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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