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Choeras

Choeras is a genus of wasp in the family Braconidae, which was first described in 1981 by W.R.M Mason. There are at least 80 described species in Choeras, found worldwide.

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Choeras
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Braconidae
Subfamily: Microgastrinae
Genus: Choeras
Mason, 1981

Choeras is a genus of wasp in the family Braconidae,1 which was first described in 1981 by W.R.M Mason.2 There are at least 80 described species in Choeras, found worldwide.13

Species

These 80 species belong to the genus Choeras:3

  • Choeras achterbergi Narendran, 1998
  • Choeras adjunctus (Nees, 1834)
  • Choeras afrotropicalis Fernandez-Triana & van Achterberg, 2017
  • Choeras almus (Tobias & Kotenko, 1984)
  • Choeras angustus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras aper (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras apo (Wilkinson, 1929)
  • Choeras apollion (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras arene (Nixon, 1973)
  • Choeras avus (Tobias & Kotenko, 1984)
  • Choeras batrachedrae (Kotenko, 1992)
  • Choeras botydis (Wilkinson, 1930)
  • Choeras brevinervus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras bushblitz Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 20194
  • Choeras calacte (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras ceto (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras ciscaucasicus (Tobias, 1971)
  • Choeras compressifemur Chen & Song, 2004
  • Choeras consimilis (Viereck, 1911)
  • Choeras daphne (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras dissors (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras dorsalis (Spinola, 1808)
  • Choeras epaphus (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras flavicorpus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras fomes (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras formosus Abdoli & Fernandez-Triana, 2019
  • Choeras fujianensis Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras fulviventris Fernandez-Triana & Abdoli, 2019
  • Choeras gerontius (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras gielisi van Achterberg, 2002
  • Choeras gnarus (Tobias & Kotenko, 1984)
  • Choeras grammatitergitus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras helespas Walker, 1996
  • Choeras helle (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras infirmicarinatus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras insignis (Muesebeck, 1938)
  • Choeras irates (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras koalascatocola Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2017
  • Choeras libanius (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras longiterebrus (Rao & Chalikwar, 1976)
  • Choeras longitergitus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras longus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras loretta (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras morialta Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2017
  • Choeras nephta (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras papua (Wilkinson, 1936)
  • Choeras parabolus Kotenko, 2007
  • Choeras parasitellae (Bouché, 1834)
  • Choeras parasonium Kotenko, 2007
  • Choeras parviocellus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras parvoculus Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019
  • Choeras psarae (Wilkinson, 1927)
  • Choeras qazviniensis Fernandez-Triana & Talebi, 2019
  • Choeras recusans (Walker, 1860)
  • Choeras ruficornis (Nees, 1834)
  • Choeras rugulosus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras semele (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras semilunatus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras semirugosus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras sordidus (Ashmead, 1900)
  • Choeras stenoterga (de Saeger, 1944)
  • Choeras superbus (de Saeger, 1944)
  • Choeras sylleptae (de Saeger, 1942)
  • Choeras taftanensis Ghafouri Moghaddam & van Achterberg, 2018
  • Choeras takeuchii (Watanabe, 1937)
  • Choeras tarasi Kotenko, 2007
  • Choeras tedellae (Nixon, 1961)
  • Choeras tegularis (Szépligeti, 1905)
  • Choeras tenuialatus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras tiro (Reinhard, 1880)
  • Choeras tumidus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras vacillatrix (Wilkinson, 1930)
  • Choeras vacillatropsis (de Saeger, 1944)
  • Choeras validicarinatus Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras validus (Thomson, 1895)
  • Choeras varicolor Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras venilia (Nixon, 1965)
  • Choeras yunnanensis Song & Chen, 2014
  • Choeras zerovae Kotenko, 2007
  • Choeras zygon Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019
References

References

  1. "Choeras". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  2. W. R. M. Mason (1981). "THE POLYPHYLETIC NATURE OF APANTELES FOERSTER (HYMENOPTERA: BRACONIDAE): A PHYLOGENY AND RECLASSIFICATION OF MICROGASTRINAE". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 113 (S115): 1–147. doi:10.4039/ENTM113115FV. ISSN 0071-075X. Wikidata Q54574827.
  3. Fernandez-Triana, Jose; Shaw, Mark R.; Boudreault, Caroline; Beaudin, Melanie; et al. (2020). "Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)". ZooKeys (920): 1–1089. Bibcode:2020ZooK..920....1F. doi:10.3897/zookeys.920.39128. PMC 7197271. PMID 32390740.
  4. Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P.; Cooper, Steven J.B.; Austin, Andrew D. (26 Feb 2019). "New species of Australian microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) documented through the 'Bush Blitz' surveys of national reserves". Zootaxa. 4560 (3). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4560.3.1. PMID 31716565. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
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