Athalia flavobasalis Koch, 2007

Koch, Frank, Pauly, Alain, Hora, Zewdu A. & Boevé, Jean-Luc, 2015, Sawflies of Ethiopia (Hymenoptera: Argidae, Tenthredinidae), Zootaxa 4021 (1), pp. 119-155 : 133-134

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.1.5
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5E93337C-8A89-4278-B9BD-D16C4255748D
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6120386
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7D088788-EE54-7A68-FF5F-65E15F9DFE0A
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Athalia flavobasalis Koch, 2007
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Athalia flavobasalis Koch, 2007: 87 . Locus typicus: Burundi, Munanira. Holotype: ♂. Burundi, Munanira [03°02'S 029°25'E], 2200 m, 01–14.I.1983, A. Autrique (MNHN).

Ethiopian material. Lake Tana, Bahar Dar [11°36'N 037°23'E] (1 ♂, 1 ♀), leg. Schäuffele ( SMNS); Welega pr., 1260 m, 70 km S Nekemte [ca 08°35'N 036°20'E], 05.IV.2007 (1 ♀), leg. J. Halada ( OLML); Sebeta, 08°54’N 038°35’E, 2165 m, 04.X.2010, on Ajuga integrifolia flower, P3420 (1 ♀), leg. J.-L. Boevé & A. Pauly ( RBINS).

Distribution. Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda.

Host plant. Brassicaceae ( Opitz et al. 2012) .

Remarks. The species was abundantly collected from 1981 to 1983 with yellow pan traps placed in potato fields in Burundi ( Chevin 1985). Chevin (1985) misidentified the material as A. himantopus truncata . Athalia truncata differs from A. flavobasalis by the entirely yellow metepimeron, and in the shape of the apically subtruncate digitus ( Koch 2007: fig. 9b). The phenology of this species based on the material from Burundi is illustrated by Koch (2007), and it is concluded that the species is univoltine.