Biology:Colastes

Short description: Genus of wasps

Colastes
Colastes (Shawiana) catenator
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Braconidae
Genus:	Colastes Haliday, 1833

Colastes is a genus of braconid wasps in the family Braconidae. There are at least 80 described species in Colastes.

The genus Shawiana has been recently treated as a subgenus of Colastes.

Species

The following 87 species belong to the genus Colastes:

• Colastes abdominalis Belokobylskij, 1986 ^{c g}
• Colastes abnormis (Wesmael, 1838) ^{c g}
• Colastes abrogatus (Brues, 1910) ^{c g}
• Colastes aciculatus Tobias, 1986 ^{c g}
• Colastes adjunctus Belokobylskij, 1998 ^{c g}
• Colastes affinis (Wesmael, 1838) ^c
• Colastes alaskensis (Ashmead, 1902) ^{c g}
• Colastes alboapicalis Belokobylskij, 1988 ^{c g}
• Colastes amoenus Belokobylskij, 2000 ^{c g}
• Colastes anervis Belokobylskij, 1992 ^{c g}
• Colastes anomalopterus (Spinola, 1851) ^{c g}
• Colastes attonita (Papp, 1987) ^{c g}
• Colastes avatsha Belokobylskij, 1998 ^{c g}
• Colastes baikalicus Belokobylskij, 1998 ^{c g}
• Colastes bohayicus Belokobylskij, 1996 ^{c g}
• Colastes borealis (Walley, 1936) ^{c g}
• Colastes braconius Haliday, 1833 ^{c g}
• Colastes brevipetiolatus Tobias, 1986 ^{c g}
• Colastes catenator (Haliday, 1836) ^{c g}
• Colastes cilipennis (Cameron, 1910) ^{c g}
• Colastes cognatus Belokobylskij, 1992 ^{c g}
• Colastes colenutti (Cockerell, 1921) ^{c g}
• Colastes cribellatus (Spinola, 1851) ^{c g}
• Colastes curtifemur Zaykov & Basamakov, 1984 ^{c g}
• Colastes dersu Belokobylskij, 1998 ^{c g}
• Colastes distractus (Cockerell, 1921) ^{c g}
• Colastes effectus (Papp, 1972) ^{c g}
• Colastes elongatus Belokobylskij, 1998 ^{c g}
• Colastes flavitarsis (Thomson, 1892) ^{c g}
• Colastes foveolator (Thomson, 1892) ^{c g}
• Colastes fragilis (Haliday, 1836) ^{c g}
• Colastes fritzeni van Achterberg & Shaw, 2008 ^{c g}
• Colastes grenadensis Ashmead, 1895 ^{c g}
• Colastes himalayicus Belokobylskij, 2000 ^{c g}
• Colastes hopkinsi (Ashmead, 1900) ^c
• Colastes hungaricus (Szepligeti, 1906) ^c
• Colastes incertus (Wesmael, 1838) ^{c g}
• Colastes inopinatus Belokobylskij, 2000 ^{c g}
• Colastes insularis Belokobylskij, 1984 ^{c g}
• Colastes interdictus Belokobylskij, 1998 ^{c g}
• Colastes involutus Belokobylskij, 1992 ^{c g}
• Colastes ivani Belokobylskij, 1986 ^{c g}
• Colastes kiefferi (Nomine, 1938) ^{c g}
• Colastes kurilensis Belokobylskij, 1996 ^{c g}
• Colastes laevis (Thomson, 1892) ^{c g}
• Colastes lapponicus (Thomson, 1892) ^{c g}
• Colastes laticarpus (Thomson, 1892) ^{c g}
• Colastes longitergum Belokobylskij, 1988 ^{c g}
• Colastes luridiceps (Vachal, 1908) ^{c g}
• Colastes lustrator (Haliday, 1836) ^{c g}
• Colastes macropterus Belokobylskij, 1992 ^{c g}
• Colastes magdalenae Sterzynski, 1983 ^{c g}
• Colastes malayensis Belokobylskij, 1992 ^{c g}
• Colastes melanocephalus (Spinola, 1851) ^{c g}
• Colastes mellipes (Provancher, 1880) ^c
• Colastes mendax Belokobylskij, 1992 ^{c g}
• Colastes metalli (Muesebeck, 1932) ^{c g}
• Colastes moldavicus Tobias, 1986 ^{c g}
• Colastes montanus (Tobias & Belokobylskij, 1986) ^c
• Colastes nuptus Papp, 1983 ^{c g}
• Colastes opacus Belokobylskij, 1992 ^{c g}
• Colastes orchesiae (Ashmead, 1889) ^{c g}
• Colastes orientalis Belokobylskij, 1998 ^{c g}
• Colastes pacificus Belokobylskij, 1998 ^{c g}
• Colastes pahangensis Belokobylskij, 2000 ^{c g}
• Colastes phyllotomae (Muesebeck, 1932) ^{c g}
• Colastes pilosiventris Belokobylskij, 1988 ^{c g}
• Colastes pilosus Belokobylskij, 1984 ^{c g}
• Colastes polypori Mason, 1968 ^{c g}
• Colastes postfurcalis Belokobylskij, 2000 ^{c g}
• Colastes propinquus (Walley, 1936) ^{c g}
• Colastes pubescens Belokobylskij, 1986 ^{c g}
• Colastes pubicornis (Thomson, 1892) ^{c g}
• Colastes rupicola Belokobylskij, 1998 ^{c g}
• Colastes sandei van Achterberg & Shaw, 2008 ^{c g}
• Colastes santacheza Belokobylskij, 1998 ^{c g}
• Colastes subquadratus Papp, 1975 ^{c g}
• Colastes sylvicola Belokobylskij, 1998 ^{c g}
• Colastes taegeri Belokobylskij, 1995 ^{c g}
• Colastes tamdaoensis Belokobylskij, 1992 ^{c g}
• Colastes testaceus Brèthes, 1924 ^{c g}
• Colastes tobiasi Belokobylskij, 1998 ^{c g}
• Colastes tricolor (Szépligeti, 1908) ^{c g}
• Colastes unicolor Belokobylskij, 1984 ^{c g}
• Colastes ussuricus Belokobylskij, 1996 ^{c g}
• Colastes vividus Papp, 1975 ^{c g}
• Colastes whartoni Belokobylskij, 1992 ^{c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=DKzAmSDdLtsC. 
• "Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico". Smithsonian Institution Press. 1979. https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/catalog-hymenoptera-america-north-mexico. Retrieved 2018-05-14. 
• Marsh, Paul M.; Shaw, Scott R.; Wharton, Robert A. (1987). "An identification manual for the North American genera of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera)". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington. 

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