''Kolopterna'' is a genus of

hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are Par ...

n insects of the family Eulophidae. ''Kolopterna'' comprises 14–15 species distributed in the

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

and

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regionsYegorenkova, E. & Yefremova, Z. 2024
Revision of the genus ''Kolopterna'' Graham (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), with description of three new species
Israel Journal of Entomology 53: 63–91. All ''Kolopterna'' species are endoparasitoids of gall midges (

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

: Cecidomyiidae) causing

gall Galls (from the Latin , 'oak-apple') or ''cecidia'' (from the Greek , anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to be ...

s on various Chenopodiaceae.

References

Key to Nearctic eulophid genera

Universal Chalcidoidea Database
Eulophidae {{Eulophidae-stub