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Coptera robustior (Silvestri)

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

Galesus silvestrii var. robustior Silvestri, 1913: 172.  Lectotype ***. Type locality: ***. Elevated to species status by Yoder and Wharton (2002).

Galesus (Schizogalesus) magnificus Nixon, 1930: 401, 408.  Syntypes female (BMNH 9.660) and another female in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type localities: Eastern Cape Province, Port St Johns; Kwazulu-Natal, Kloof, South Africa. Junior subjective synonym. Synonymy by Yoder and Wharton (2002).

Distribution

South Africa.

Biology

Reared from Ceratitis punctata (Weidemann) infesting Tabernaemontana longiflora Benth. (Silvestri, 1913), and also from laboratory-reared medfly puparia buried in soil in a coffee plantation (Wharton et al. 2000).

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.

Silvestri, F. 1913. Viaggio in Africa per cercare parassiti di mosche dei frutti. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria, Portici 8: 1-164.

Silvestri, F. 1914. Report of an expedition to Africa in search of the natural enemies of fruit flies (Trypaneidae) with descriptions, observations and biological notes. Territory of Hawaii Board of Agriculture and Forestry, Division of Entomology Bulletin 3: 1-146, 167-176 + plates.

Wharton, R. A., Trostle, M. K., Messing, R. H., Copeland, R. S., Kimani-Njogu, S. W., Lux, S., Overholt, W. A., Mohamed, S., Sivinski, J. 2000. Parasitoids of medfly, Ceratitis capitata, and related tephritids in Kenyan coffee: a predominantly koinobiont assemblage. Bulletin of Entomological Research 90: 517-526

Yoder M.J. & Wharton R.A. 2002. Nomenclature of African Psilini (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) and status of Coptera robustior, a parasitoid of Mediterranean fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae). The Canadian Entomologist 134 (5): 561-576. http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/Ent134561-5

Credits

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