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).