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Coptera silvestrii (Kieffer)

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

Galesus (Schizogalesus) silvestrii Kieffer, 1913: 91. Lectotype in ***. Paralectotypes in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality: Olokemeji, Nigeria.

Distribution

Nigeria.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Kieffer JJ. 1913. Deux nouveaux Diapriides d'Afrique. Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. Agr. 7: 91-92.
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.

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

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

 

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