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Issue: Vol. 4444 No. 3: 10 Jul. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-07-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.3.6
Page range: 316–326
Abstract views: 68
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New records, descriptions and notes on Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Iran

Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council of Italy 80055, Portici (NA) Italy Department of Life Sciences, The Natural HistoryMuseum, London, SW7 5BD, UK
Department of Plant Protection, Yadegar- e- Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Hymenoptera Anagyrus Metaphycus Microterys Copidosoma Paranathrix

Abstract

New additions to the Iranian fauna are reported. Three new species of Encyrtidae, Anagyrus osmoi sp. nov., Metaphycus prengoi sp. nov., and Microterys obricoi sp. nov., are described. Three new records, Anagyrus saccharicola Timberlake, 1932, Copidosoma filicorne (Dalman, 1820) and Paranathrix acanthococci (Myartseva, 1977) and one note are reported.

 

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