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Finding of Parasitoids Phalacrotophora fasciata (Diptera: Phoridae) and Oomyzus scaposus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) in Pupas of Harmonia axyridis of the Crimea

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New events of parasitization of pupas of Crimean ladybird Harmonia axyridis by native parasitoids Phalacrotophora fasciata and Oomyzus scaposus are described.

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Original Russian Text © D.A. Romanov, 2017, published in Rossiiskii Zhurnal Biologicheskikh Invazii, 2017, No. 4, pp. 106–109.

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Romanov, D.A. Finding of Parasitoids Phalacrotophora fasciata (Diptera: Phoridae) and Oomyzus scaposus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) in Pupas of Harmonia axyridis of the Crimea. Russ J Biol Invasions 9, 83–85 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2075111718010150

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