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Pteroptrix coloba

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Pteroptrix coloba is a species in the family Aphelinidae, order Hymenoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: South Africa.

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Quick facts about Pteroptrix coloba

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does Pteroptrix coloba live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Pteroptrix coloba is listed for 1 country.

South Africa
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. South Africa

Is Pteroptrix coloba endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Pteroptrix coloba classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHymenoptera
  5. familyAphelinidae
  6. genusPteroptrix
  7. SpeciesPteroptrix coloba (Prinsloo & Neser, 1990)

Synonyms Archenomus colobus

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Pteroptrix coloba

Other species in the same genus Pteroptrix.

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Common questions

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Where does Pteroptrix coloba live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Pteroptrix coloba for 1 country: South Africa. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Pteroptrix coloba?

Pteroptrix coloba (Pteroptrix coloba) belongs to the family Aphelinidae in the order Hymenoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Pteroptrix coloba (Pteroptrix coloba). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/pteroptrix-coloba

MLA

“Pteroptrix coloba (Pteroptrix coloba).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/pteroptrix-coloba.

BibTeX
@misc{pteroptrix_coloba_2026,
  title = {Pteroptrix coloba (Pteroptrix coloba)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/pteroptrix-coloba},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}