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A Review of the Encyrtid-Wasp Genus Mayridia García Mercet, 1921 of the World Fauna, with Description of a New Species from Montenegro and Notes on the Genus Comones Noyes et Woolley, 1994 (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae)

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The article contains information on the genera Mayridia García Mercet, 1921 and Comones Noyes et Woolley, 1994, keys to females of 32 species of Mayridia and 3 species of Comones of the world fauna, synopses with data on their distribution and hosts, and description of M. lilianellasp. n. from Montenegro. Mayridia arida Prinsloo et Annecke, 1976 from Namibia is transferred to Comones as C. aridus (Prinsloo et Annecke, 1976), comb. n.

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Trjapitzin, 2017, publishedin Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2017, Vol. 96, No. 4, pp. 839—853.

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Trjapitzin, V.A. A Review of the Encyrtid-Wasp Genus Mayridia García Mercet, 1921 of the World Fauna, with Description of a New Species from Montenegro and Notes on the Genus Comones Noyes et Woolley, 1994 (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae). Entmol. Rev. 97, 1357–1367 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873817090147

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