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New record of Coccophagus shillongensis Hayat and Singh (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from Europe, with some remarks on morphological variation

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The species Coccophagus shillongensis was described in 1989 by Hayat and Singh (Colemania, 5, 29–34, 1989) from India. There were no records about the host insect species and its host plant. Our record from Greece is the first record of this species outside of India and from Europe. The host record is also new, and the morphological variation was considerably informative, so we present a re-description of the species, including illustrations.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Mohammad Hayat for his help in the confirmation of the species. We also thank Anne Shen for her help to refine the English drafts. The second author would like to express his gratitude to Professor Giuseppina Pellizzari, DAFNAE Department, University of Padova, Italy, for the confirmation of Coccus pseudomagnoliarum.

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  1. Institute of Entomology, Agricultural, University of Georgia, 0159, Tbilisi, Georgia

    G. Japoshvili

  2. Department of Agricultural Technology, Laboratory of Agricultural Entomology & Zoology, Technological Educational Institute of Peloponnese, 24100, Kalamata, Greece

    G. Stathas

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Japoshvili, G., Stathas, G. New record of Coccophagus shillongensis Hayat and Singh (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) from Europe, with some remarks on morphological variation. Phytoparasitica 45, 651–653 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12600-017-0628-4

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