Choeras Explained

Choeras is a genus of braconid wasps in the family Braconidae. There are at least 80 described species in Choeras, found worldwide.

Species

These 80 species belong to the genus Choeras:

• 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, 2019
• 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

Further reading

• Eight new species and an annotated checklist of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from Canada and Alaska. 2010. Fernandez-Triana . J.. ZooKeys. 63. 1–53. 10.3897/zookeys.63.565. 3088399. 21594019. free.
• An annotated and illustrated checklist of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland. 2017. Fernandez-Triana . J.. Buffam . J.. Beaudin . M.. Davis . H.. Fernandez-Galliano . A.. Griffin . E.. Lin . S-Y. McAulay . M.K.. Richter . R.. Rodriguez . F.. Várkonyi . G.. 4. ZooKeys. 691. 49–101. 10.3897/zookeys.691.14491. 5672697. 29200923. free.
• An identification manual for the North American genera of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera). 1987. Marsh . Paul M.. Shaw . Scott R.. Wharton . Robert A.. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington.