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A new species of Anagyrus Howard (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), A. pseudofuscus Zu sp. nov., is described from China as a parasitoid of the mealybug, Phenacoccus solani Ferris (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae).
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10 November 2018
The published online article unfortunately has an error. In a paper describing Anagyrus pseudofuscus Zu sp. nov. (Zu et al. 2018), the authors omitted to designate the depository of the holotype.
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This project was supported by the Scientific Project of Tianjin Municipal Education Commission (No. 2017KJ185), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31470652), the Foundation of Tianjin Academic Innovation Team and Tianjin 131 Biocide creation team.
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Zu, GH., Wang, Yh., Zhang, YZ. et al. A new species of Anagyrus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) from China, parasitoid of Phenacoccus solani Ferris (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) on Lycoris radiata (L’Her.) Herb.. Phytoparasitica 46, 197–201 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12600-018-0646-x
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