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Coccophagus brachypterus sp. n. is described from Malaysia. The new species differs from the closely related C. silvestrii Compere in the black hind femur and blackish largest part of hind tibia. The new species is also characterized by shortened fore wings with the apices not reaching the abdominal apex.
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Original Russian Text © E.S. Sugonyaev, 2011, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2011, Vol. 90, No. 2, pp. 439–441.
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Sugonyaev, E.S. A new species of the genus Coccophagus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Aphelinidae) inhabiting ants’ nests (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Malaysia. Entmol. Rev. 92, 101–102 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873812010113
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