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Athalia incomta Konow

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

Athalia incomta Konow, 1908. Holotype in (SDEI). Type locality: Algoa Bay, Capland (Eastern Cape Province, South Africa).
Athalia xantha Benson, 1962. Holotype in (BMNH). Type locality: Weenan, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal Province], South Africa. Synonymy by Koch et al, in press.

Classification

Distribution

Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Biology

Adults were repeatedly observed on Selago dinteri Rolfe (Scrophulariaceae, Lamiales) on the plateau of the Waterberg (Koch et al. 2015). 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: Tenthredinidae). 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, Tenthredinidae, Allantinae). 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. 1908. Ueber die bisher bekannten Athalia-Arten Afrikas. (Hym). Zeitschrift für systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie, Teschendorf bei Stargard in Mecklenburg 8(3): 164-169.

Credits

 Photographs © Andrew D. Liston (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2023. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the Afrotropical region. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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