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A review of encyrtid wasps of the genus Anicetus Howard, 1896 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Encyrtidae) of the new world, Hawaiian Islands, and Australia with description of new species from Mexico

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The review contains a characteristic (with diagnosis) of the genus Anicetus Howard, 1896, a key to the females of the 12 species known from the New World, the Hawaiian Islands, and Australia, and a synopsis of the species with data on their distribution, hosts, biology, ecesis, and use in biological control of injurious coccids. Two new species are described from Mexico: Anicetus myartsevae sp. n. and A. villarreali sp. n. Anicetus carolinensis J. Meyer, 2001 from the USA is excluded from the genus and transferred to Homosemion Annecke, 1967. A new combination is established: Anicetus argentinus (Fidalgo, 1979), comb. n. from Paraceraptrocerus Girault, 1920, which is a synonym of Anicetus. The paper is based on the author’s work in the insect depositories of the USA (Washington, San Francisco, and Riverside), Mexico (Ciudad Victoria), and Russia (St. Petersburg). Anicetus myartsevae sp. n. is compared with the Mexican A. primus (Howard, 1898), from which it differs in the antennal scape half as long dorsally as at base (as long as that in A. primus), the legs more or less extensively dark (mainly yellow in A. primus), and the face with a dark transverse stripe (without stripe in A. primus). Anicetus villarrieli sp. n. is a short-winged species.

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Trjapitzin, 2010, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2010, Vol. 89, No. 2, pp. 438–453.

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Trjapitzin, V.A. A review of encyrtid wasps of the genus Anicetus Howard, 1896 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Encyrtidae) of the new world, Hawaiian Islands, and Australia with description of new species from Mexico. Entmol. Rev. 90, 747–759 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873810060114

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