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Coptera Say

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

Coptera Say, 1836: 281. Type species: Coptera polita Say, 1836.

 

Coptera abdominalis  Nixon, 1930)

 

Coptera ankaratrae (Risbec, 1954)

 

Coptera bidens (Nixon, 1930)

  Coptera bignonae (Risbec, 1954)
  Coptera carinaticeps (Nixon, 1930)
 

Coptera conradti (Kieffer, 1910)

 

Coptera difficilis (Nixon, 1930)

 

Coptera distincta (Nixon, 1930)

  Coptera elgoni (Risbec, 1950)
 

Coptera inquisitor (Nixon, 1930)

 

Coptera longiceps (Nixon, 1930)

  Coptera macrophthalma (Risbec, 1950)
  Coptera microphthalma (Risbec, 1950)
 

Coptera modesta (Nixon, 1930)

  Coptera mosselensis Notton, 2014
 

Coptera muscidorum (Dodd, 1920)

 

Coptera punctulata (Kieffer, 1907)

 

Coptera quadridens (Nixon, 1930)

 

Coptera rectangularis (Nixon, 1930)

  Coptera robustior (Silvestri, 1913)
 

Coptera seyrigi Notton, 2004

 

Coptera silvestrii (Kieffer, 1913)

 

Coptera toboi (Risbec, 1954)

 

Coptera turneri (Nixon, 1930)

Coptera species 1 (Mozambique)
Coptera species 2 (Mozambique)
Coptera species 3 (Mozambique)
Coptera species 4 (Mozambique)
Coptera species 5 (Mozambique)
Coptera species 6 (Mozambique)
Coptera species 7 (Mozambique)
Coptera species 8 (Mozambique)
Coptera species 9 (Mozambique)
Coptera species 10 (Mozambique)
Coptera species 11 (Mozambique)
Coptera species 12 (Mozambique)
Coptera species 13 (Mozambique)
Coptera species 14 (Mozambique)

Distribution

Worldwide.

Biology

Parasitoids of Tephritidae (Diptera).

References

Dodd A.P. 1920. Notes on the exotic Proctotrupoidea in the British and Oxford University Museums, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1919 (3-4): 321-382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1920.tb00008.x Förster. 1856. Hymenopterologische Studien. II. Heft. Chalcidae und Proctotrupii. Ernst ter Meer, Aachen. 152 pp.

Johnson, N.F. 1992. Catalog of world Proctotrupoidea excluding Platygastridae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 51: 1-825. doi:10.5281/zenodo.23657

Kieffer J.J. 1907. Beschreibung neuer im British Museum zu London aufbewahrter Proctotrypiden.
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 51 (4): 279-302.

Kieffer JJ. 1910. Serphidae, Cynipidae, Chalcididae, Evaniidae und Stephanidae aus Aequatorialafrika. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 3: 91-119. doi:10.5281/zenodo.24312

Kieffer JJ. 1910. Fam. Belytidae. Genera Insectorum. No. 107. 47 pp.

Kieffer JJ. 1912. Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2. series, Zoology, 15 (1): 45-80, pls 2, 3.
Kieffer JJ. 1912. Hymenoptera Fam. Diapriidae. In: Wytsman P. (ed.), Genera Insectorum 124: 75 pp.

Kieffer JJ. 1913. Description de nouveaux microhymenopteres. Brotéria 11: 169-198. doi:10.5281/zenodo.24317

Madl M. 2015. A catalogue of the families Ceraphronidae, Megaspilidae (Ceraphronoidea), Diapriidae (Diaprioidea) and Proctotrupidae (Proctotrupoidea) of the Malagasy subregion (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beitraege 47(1): 621–652.

Masner, L. 1993. Superfamily Proctotrupoidea (pp. 537-557). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Özdikmen H. 2010. New names for some preoccupied specific epithets in the superfamily Diaprioidea (Hymenoptera). Munis Entomology & Zoology 5(2): 745-752.

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.

Sundholm, A. 1970. Hymenoptera. Proctotrupidae. In: Hanstrom, B, Brink, P. & Rudebeck, G. (eds.) South African Animal Life. Lund: Berlingska Boktryckeriet 14: 306-401.

Tymochko LI, Cuaranhua C, Gumovsky, AV. 2021. Habitat distribution of diapriid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Diaprioidea) in eastern Mozambique. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-021-00529-0

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. 2021. The Diapriidae. http://www.diapriid.org/projects/4/public/site/diapriid/home

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

Photographs © Alex Gumovsky (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev, Ukraine).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

 

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