Coptera mosselensis Notton

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Diaprioidea; Family: Diapriidae; Subfamily: Diapriinae; Genus: Coptera)

Galesus (Schizogalesus) silvestrii var. nigricornis Nixon, 1930: 401, 412. Syntypes male (BMNH 9.658) and another 3 males in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality: Western Cape Province, Mossel Bay, South Africa.

Coptera mosselensis Notton, 2014. Replacement name for Galesus (Schizogalesus) silvestrii var. nigricornis Nixon, 1930, which is permanently invalid as a junior primary homonym of Galesus (G.) foersteri var. nigricornis Kieffer, 1911.

Distribution	South Africa.
Biology	Host: unknown.
References	Nixon G.E.J. 1930. The Ethiopian Representatives of the Genus Galesus (Proctotrupoidea) with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 10th series 6 (34): 399-414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933008673233 Notton DG. 2014. A catalogue of types of Diapriinae (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae) at the Natural History Museum, London. European Journal of Taxonomy 75: 1-123.
Credits	Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

Coptera mosselensis Notton

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