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Coptera abdominalis (Nixon)

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

Galesus (Schizogalesus) abdominalis Nixon, 1930: 400, 402, 406. Syntypes female (BMNH 9.667), male (BMNH 9.667b) and another 2 females and a male in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK). Type locality: Eastern Cape Province, Port St Johns, South Africa.

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

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