Austrocotesia

Austrocotesia
Austrocotesia exigua
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Braconidae
Subfamily:	Microgastrinae
Genus:	Austrocotesia Austin & Dangerfield, 1992

Austrocotesia is a genus of braconid wasps in the family Braconidae. There are about five described species in Austrocotesia, found in Oceania and the Neotropics.[1][2]

Species

These five species belong to the genus Austrocotesia:

• Austrocotesia croizati Valerio & Whitfield, 2005 (Colombia, Ecuador)
• Austrocotesia delicata Austin & Dangerfield, 1992 (Australia, Papua New Guinea)
• Austrocotesia exigua Austin & Dangerfield, 1992 (Papua New Guinea)
• Austrocotesia paradoxa Austin & Dangerfield, 1992 (Papua New Guinea)
• Austrocotesia renei Valerio & Whitfield, 2005 (Ecuador)

References

1. "Austrocotesia". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
2. Fernandez-Triana, Jose; Shaw, Mark R.; Boudreault, Caroline; Beaudin, Melanie; et al. (2020). "Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)". ZooKeys (920): 1–1089. Bibcode:2020ZooK..920....1F. doi:10.3897/zookeys.920.39128. PMC 7197271. PMID 32390740.