Choeras Mason, 1981

Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D. & Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect, 2021, Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia, Zootaxa 4949 (1), pp. 79-101 : 83

Choeras Mason, 1981

Choeras Mason, 1981: 76 ; Austin & Dangerfield 1992. See Fagan-Jeffries et al. (2019) and Fagan-Jeffries & Austin (2018) for a review and comments on the Australasian fauna; Fernández-Triana et al. (2020) for a checklist and comments on the world fauna.

Type species: Apanteles (Pseudapanteles) consimilis Viereck, 1911 , by original designation.

Comments. Choeras Mason, 1981 has recently been reviewed for Australia ( Fagan-Jeffries et al. 2019; Fagan-Jeffries & Austin 2018), with 12 species described from the continent. The Australian members of the genus as it is currently defined include two distinct, unrelated clades; a group of species with a small fore wing areolet, and group of species with a large fore wing areolet which contains species currently described as both Choeras and Sathon ( Fagan-Jeffries et al. 2018b Figure 4b , Fagan-Jeffries et al. 2019 Figure 1 ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Location of regional schools involved in Insect Investigators in 2019/2020. A) Map of South Australia. B) Portion of South Australia indicated by the red square in A showing the locations of the schools: Cowell Area School indicated by a blue circle, Macclesfield Primary School indicated by a green square, and Waikerie and Ramco Primary Schools (located very close to each other in the Riverland region) indicated by an orange star. The capital city of Adelaide is indicated by a red circle.

FIGURE 4. Dolichogenidea franklinharbourensis holotype A) Dorsal habitus B) Fore wing C) Dorsal mesosoma D) Dorsal head E) Lateral habitus F) Anterior head.