Athalia obsoleta Benson 1962
Creators: name: Koch, Frank
name: Pauly, Alain
name: Hora, Zewdu A.
name: Boevé, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Tenthredinidae
Athalia
Athalia obsoleta

description: Athalia obsoleta Benson, 1962
(Fig. 12 A–D)
Athalia himantopus obsoleta Benson, 1962: 378. Locus typicus: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa [Adis Abeba]. Holotype: ♀. Ethiopia, Addis Ababa [09°00'N 038°45'E], 7500 ft, 30.IX.1945, K. M. Guichard (BMNH). Athalia obsoleta: Koch, 2007: 95.
Additional Ethiopian material. Scioa, Let-Marefià [09°38'N 039°45'E], VI–VII.1880 (MCSN); IV–VII.1881 (1 ♀), leg. Antinori (UZMT); Scioa, L. Cialabaka [= L. Cheleleka, 09°N 040°E], VI.1885 (1 ♀), leg. Ragazzi (MCSN); Bahar Dar [Baher Dar, 11°36'N 037°23'E], 27.X.1968 (1 ♂), leg. K.W. & H. Harde; VI–VII.1969 (1 ♀), leg. Schäuffele (SMNS); Jimma [07°40'N 036°50'E], 26.X–01.XI.1969, leg. R. H. Cobben (1 ♀) (WUPS); Sebeta, 08°54’N 038°35’E, 2165 m, 03.X.2010, P3413 (1 ♂), leg. J.-L. Boevé (RBINS); Debre Zeyit, 08°45'N 038°59'E, 1920 m, 06.X.2010, flying just above the ground of a vegetable garden, P3421 (1 ♂), leg. J.-L. Boevé (RBINS); Ineseno (Fig. 6 B), 08°02’N 038°31’E, 1800 m, 14.IX.2012, on Brassicaceae crop, P3615 (1 ♀), leg. J.-L. Boevé & A. Pauly (RBINS); Ineseno, 08°02’N 038°31'E, 1835 m, 14.IX.2012, on Brassicaceae crop mixed with Caspicum, P3616, P3618 (2 ♂), leg. J.-L. Boevé & A. Pauly (RBINS); Abijata Shala N. P., 07°29’N 038°39’E, 1620 m, 16.IX.2012, flying during light rain, P3621 (1 ♂), leg. J.-L. Boevé & A. Pauly (RBINS); near Senkele N. P., 07°13’N 038°16’E, ≈ 2000 m, 17.IX.2012, on Vernonia auriculifera (Asteraceae) flowers, P3629 (1 ♂), leg. J.-L. Boevé & A. Pauly (RBINS); Tarmaber Pass, 09°50'13"N 039°44'30"E, 3160 m, 29.IX.2012, on Ajuga integrifolia, P3639Ba_01 (1 ♀), leg. Z. A. Hora, K. Amberbir & J.-L. Boevé (RBINS); Oromia, Ghedo (Fig. 6 C), 09°01’N 037°27’E, 2400 m, 25.IX.2013, with yellow pan traps, P3811 (1 ♀), leg. Z. A. Hora & A. Pauly (RBINS); Holeta, 09°04'N 038°30'E, 2450 m, with yellow pan traps, 10.VII.2012, P3690a (1 ♀), 14.IX.2012, P3646 (1 ♂), 19.IX.2012, P3665 (1 ♀), 20.IX.2012, P3647 (1 ♂), 21.IX.2012, P3648, P3666_1 (2 ♀), 05.X.2012, P3649_1 (1 ♂), 05.X.2012, P3649_2 (1 ♀), 06.X.2012, P3650_1 (1 ♂), 07.X.2012, P3651 (1 ♀), 09.X.2012, P3652_1 (1 ♂), 11.X.2012, P3654 (1 ♀), 12.X.2012, P3655_1 (1 ♂; MFN), 13.X.2012, P3656 (1 ♀), 19.X.2012, P3657 (1 ♂), 24.XI.2012, P3662 (1 ♀), leg. Z. A. Hora, J.-L. Boevé & A. Pauly (RBINS).
Distribution. Ethiopia (Fig. 8 C), Kenya.
Host plant. Brassicaceae (Opitz et al. 2012).
Remarks. Benson (1962) distinguished three geographical races (or subspecies) of Athalia himantopus: the nominotypical form A. himantopus himantopus, as well as A. himantopus truncata and A. himantopus obsoleta. All these subspecies are recognized as valid species of the A. himantopus species group (Koch 2007).
description: Published as part of Koch, Frank, Pauly, Alain, Hora, Zewdu A. & Boevé, Jean-Luc, 2015, Sawflies of Ethiopia (Hymenoptera: Argidae, Tenthredinidae), pp. 119-155 in Zootaxa 4021 (1) on pages 135-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/234830