Athalia flavobasalis Koch, 2007

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.