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Contribution to the Knowledge of the Encyrtid-Wasp Genus Isodromus Howard, 1887 (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae: Homalotylini), Parasitoids of Lacewings (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae) in the Palaearctic

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The article contains: (1) a key to the genera of the tribe Homalotylini Hoffer, 1954 of the world fauna; (2) a key to 16 species of the genus Isodromus Howard, 1887 found in the Palaearctic Region; (3) a synopsis of these 16 species with indication of their distribution, chrysopid hosts, prey of chrysopids, and plants inhabited by them, as well as some biological traits of Isodromus species.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Natalia Andreevna Florenskaya (St. Petersburg) for her excellent drawing of an encyrtid wasp for our paper and also to our son Serguei Vladimirovich Triapitsyn who provided us with the modern literature and gave us valuable consultations on green lacewings.

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2019, Vol. 98, No. 4, pp. 834–842.

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Trjapitzin, V.A., Shuvakhina, E.Y. Contribution to the Knowledge of the Encyrtid-Wasp Genus Isodromus Howard, 1887 (Hymenoptera, Encyrtidae: Homalotylini), Parasitoids of Lacewings (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae) in the Palaearctic. Entmol. Rev. 99, 1382–1388 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873819090148

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