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Check-List of the Aphidiid-Wasp Subfamily Prainae (Hymenoptera, Aphidiidae) from Russia and Adjacent Countries

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A total of 31 species belonging to 4 genera of the subfamily Prainae (Hymenoptera, Aphidiidae) are recorded from Russia and adjacent countries: Praon Haliday, 1833 (23 species), Dyscritulus Hincks, 1943 (2), Areopraon Mackauer, 1959 (5), and Pseudopraon Starỳ, 1975 (1 species). The fauna of Russia includes 28 species, of which 13 species, Areopraon chaitophori Tomanović et Petrović, 2009, Praon athenaeum Kavallieratos et Lucouressis, 2000, P. barbatum Mackauer, 1967, P. cavariellae Starý, 1971, P. flavicorne Starý, 1971, P. gallicum Starý, 1971, P. longicorne Marshall, 1891, P. minor Starý, 1971, P. rosaecola Starý, 1961, P. spinosum Mackauer, 1959, P. taisetsuzanum Takada, 1968, P. uroleucon Tomanović et Kavallieratos, 2003, and P. yomenae Takada, 1968, are recorded for the first time.

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Acknowledgments

The author is deeply grateful to S.A. Belokobylskij for the opportunity to examine the collections of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, and for constant help in the work, to D.R. Kasparyan, A.V. Gavrilyuk, T.S. Kostromina, K.P. Tomkovich, and E.V. Tselikh for interesting material, and to I.G. Chiriac (Kishinev) for granting the type specimens of several aphidiid species.

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The study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 15-29-02466).

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2019, Vol. 98, No. 4, pp. 787–903.

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Davidian, E.M. Check-List of the Aphidiid-Wasp Subfamily Prainae (Hymenoptera, Aphidiidae) from Russia and Adjacent Countries. Entmol. Rev. 99, 1273–1287 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873819090045

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