Athalia bolivari Dusmet, 1896

Taeger, Andreas, París, Mercedes & Nieves-Aldrey, Jose Luis, 2014, The type specimens of sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Zootaxa 3790 (1), pp. 103-138 : 108

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3790.1.5
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5080383
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scientific name	Athalia bolivari Dusmet, 1896
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A junior subjective synonym of Athalia circularis circularis ( Klug, 1815) , synonymy by Benson (1962).

Types. Athalia Bolivari (sic!) Dusmet, 1896: 146. Syntype (s) ♂, “Coruña” Lectotype, ♂, hereby designated ( MNCN _Ent 82342, MNCN Cat. Tipos Nº 2268, Fig. 08, see also http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.746925). Type locality: Spain: Coruña .

Discussion. Benson (1962: 365) synonymized A. bolivari with A. circularis . Fitton (1978: IV 5) listed the taxon as valid. Most likely the name was simply wrong formatted and should appear in this paper under circularis as a synonym. Aksoy et al. (1998) mentioned without further explanation larvae of A. bolivari on Capsella bursapastoris . The systematics of Athalia require further investigation. It is not unlikely that several species are currently confused under the name circularis . The type specimen is obviously a melanistic specimen. It is not quite clear if the type locality concerns the city itself, or the province A Coruña.