Enderlein, 1920 : 354
Koch (2007: 92)
Sawflies of Ethiopia (Hymenoptera: Argidae, Tenthredinidae)
Koch, Frank
Pauly, Alain
Hora, Zewdu A.
Boevé, Jean-Luc
Zootaxa
2015
4021
1
119
155
Enderlein, 1920
Enderlein
1920
[151,628,1713,1739]
Insecta
Tenthredinidae
Athalia
GBIF
Animalia
Hymenoptera
15
134
Arthropoda
species
marginipennis
Athalia marginipennis Enderlein, 1920: 354. Locus typicus: D.[eutsch]- O.[st] Afrika [ Tanzania], Nyembe-Bulungwa [ 04°04'S 032°12'E]. Lectotypedesignated by Koch (2007: 92): ♀. D. O. Afrika, Nyembe-Bulungwa, 1914, Hammerstein S. (ZMPA).
Ethiopian material.Baletta Forest [ca 07°32'N 036°35'E], West of Jimma, 27.I.1946(1 ♀), leg. K. M. Guichard ( BMNH); Tarmaber Pass, 09°50'13"N 39°44'30"E, 3160 m, 29.IX.2012, on Ajuga integrifolia, P3639C ( 1 ♂), leg. J.-L. Boevé ( RBINS).
Distribution. Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.
Host plant. Brassicaceaeaccording to Koch (2007), Opitz et al. (2012)and the examined material: reared on Brassicafrom Kivu: Uvira, 05.I.1960, G. Marlier (1 ♀); on wild Brassicaceaein South Africa, D. Visser (in litt.).
Remarks. Athalia marginipennisis one of the most widespread Athaliaspecies of the Afrotropical Region. It was misidentified and wrongly synonymized by Benson (1962)with A. sjoestedtiKonow, 1907 ( Koch 2006). Although Benson (1962)indicated that he had examined the typesof A. marginipennis, none of these was correspondingly labelled by him. Athalia sjoestedtiis characterised by its conspicuously medially excised clypeus and is therefore ascribed to the A. vollenhovenigroup ( Koch 2006). Following the key of Benson (1962), Chevin (1985)misidentified over 1000 specimens as A. sjoestedti.Based on this material collected from 1981 to 1983by means of yellow traps in potato fields he found a univoltine life cycle. The phenology is also illustrated by Koch (2007: fig. 14)under the correct name A. marginipennis.