Genus Cotesia Cameron, 1891

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• Cotesia Cameron, P. 1891. Hymenopterological notices. I. On some Hymenoptera parasitic in Indian injurious insects. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 4: 182-194 [185].

  Type species:

   Cotesia flavipes Cameron, 1891 by monotypy.
• Cryptapanteles Viereck, H.L. 1910. Hymenoptera for the New Jersey list of insects, and other Hymenoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 11: 208-211 [209].

  Type species:

   Cryptapanteles rileyanus Viereck, 1910 (= Apanteles scitulus Riley, 1881) by original designation.
• Stenopleura Viereck, H.L. 1911. Descriptions of six new genera and thirty-one new species of ichneumon-flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 40: 173-196 [187].

  Type species:

   Apanteles sesamiae Cameron, 1906 by original designation.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

BRACONIDAE: Cotesia flavipes Cameron, 1981 [Previously recorded as present in Australia but specimens have subsequently been identified as C. nonagriae. See Introduction to C. nonagriae for further details.]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: South East Corner (SEC) ; Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Stony Plains (STP) ; Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

General References

Fagan-Jeffries, E.P. & Austin, A.D. 2020. Synopsis of the parasitoid wasp genus Cotesia Cameron, 1891 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) in Australia, with the description of seven new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 667: 1-70

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