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Issue: Vol. 2644 No. 1: 13 Oct. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-10-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2644.1.5
Page range: 64–68
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Mymar (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from the Palaearctic region, with nomenclatural changes in the genus

Department of Zoology, University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, 24 Tsar Asen St., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Entomology Research Museum, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
Hymenoptera taxonomy Chalcidoidea fairyfly synonymy

Abstract

A new species of Mymar Curtis (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), M. ramym Donev & Triapitsyn sp. n., is described from Bulgaria and Kyrgyzstan. Information is provided on the previously unknown male of M. maritimum Triapitsyn & Berezovskiy. The Nearctic species M. cincinnati Girault syn. n. is synonymized under M. venustum Girault rev. stat., which is removed from the previous synonymy under M. pulchellum Curtis.

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