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Kolopterna

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Kolopterna

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Kolopterna is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae. Kolopterna comprises 14–15 species distributed in the Palearctic and Oriental regions All Kolopterna species are endoparasitoids of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) causing galls on various Chenopodiaceae.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderHymenoptera
  5. FamilyEulophidae

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Specimen records
28
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168
Family
Eulophidae
Collections
NHMUK

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Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Eulophidae
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taxon name
Kolopterna
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Kolopterna is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae. Kolopterna comprises 14–15 species distributed in the Palearctic and Oriental regions All Kolopterna species are endoparasitoids of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) causing galls on various Chenopodiaceae.

==References== Key to Nearctic eulophid genera Universal Chalcidoidea Database

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