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Coptera muscidorum (Dodd)

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

Galesus muscidorum Dodd, 1920: 381. Holotype female in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality: Uganda, no specific locality.

Distribution

Uganda.

Biology

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

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