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Genus of wasps

Coptera

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Diapriidae
Subfamily:	Diapriinae
Tribe:	Psilini
Genus:	Coptera Say, 1836

Coptera is a genus of wasps belonging to the family Diapriidae.

They are a genus of parasitic wasps. Coptera females search for hosts. The known hosts are primarily true fruit flies.

The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.

Species

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Species include:

Coptera acantha Montilla & García, 2016
Coptera alticeps (Kieffer, 1911)
Coptera angulata Muesebeck, 1980
Coptera anka Krogmann, et al., 2018
Coptera ateles Montilla & García, 2016
Coptera campanada Montilla & García, 2016
Coptera cingulatae
Coptera crassicornis (Kieffer, 1911)
Coptera tonic Ericson & Forbes, 2020

References

^ "Coptera Say, 1836". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 28 May 2021.

Taxon identifiers
Coptera	Wikidata: Q15708508 Wikispecies: Coptera BOLD: 315594 BugGuide: 244141 EoL: 3835158 EPPO: 1COPEG Fauna Europaea: 157221 Fauna Europaea (new): 1dd20b75-c97c-4755-a932-9231edb2f532 GBIF: 4406325 iNaturalist: 480901 IRMNG: 1431458 NCBI: 1119378 Open Tree of Life: 1046747

Ericson, Hannah C.; Forbes, Andrew A. (2020-11-05). "Description of the new species Coptera tonic (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae), a pupal parasitoid of Rhagoletis juniperina Marcovitch (Diptera, Tephritidae), and revised partial keys to Nearctic Coptera Say". ZooKeys (985): 49–60. Bibcode:2020ZooK..985...49E. doi:10.3897/zookeys.985.56974. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 7661480. PMID 33223874.