Document Type : Agricultural Entomology
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The family Mymaridae (Hym.: Chalcidoidea) are cosmopolitan wasps, with 103 valid genera and about 1424 valid species worldwide. On the study of faun on parasitoids wasps of Coccoidea in Mazandaran in 2011-2013, two species of Mymaridae belong to Alaptus genera were collected. One species identified as Alaptus priesneri collected from three samples of Chrysomphalus dictyospermi on Citrus aurantium L. on 02. Sep. 2013, Planococcus citri on C. aurantium L. on 23. Sep. 2013 and Ceroplastes sinensis on Hedera helix L. on 26. Sep. 2013 in Juybar area. Alaptus auranti collected in one samples of C. dictyospermi on C. aurantium L. on 07. Dec. 2012 in Juybar area. These parasitoid wasps are new for Iranian fauna
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