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| HYMENOPTERA, Mymaridae (Haliday
  1839) - (Chalcidoidea) --  <Images> & <Juveniles>               Mymaridae. -- The fairy
  flies are tiny insects, mostly less than a millimeter long,  with linear hind wings.  They attack insect eggs, and some species
  attack the eggs of aquatic insects. This group contains some of the smallest
  insects known; one species of Aldptus has a body length of only 0.19
  mm.      References:   Please refer
  to  <biology.ref.htm>, [Additional
  references may be found at:   MELVYL Library
  ]   Annecke, D. P. & R. L. Doutt.  1961. 
  The genera of the Mymaridae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea).  Rep. S. Africa Dept. Agr. Tech. Ser. Ent.
  Mem. 5:  1-71.   Ashmead, W. H. 
  1904.  Classification of the chalcid
  flies.  Mem. Carnegie Mus. 1: 
  255-551.   Debauche, H.
  R.  1948.  Etude sur les Mymarommidae et les
  Mymaridae de la Belgique (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea).  Mém. Mus.
  Hist. Nat. Belgium 108:  1-248.   Debauche, H.
  R.  1949.  Mymaridae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea).  Explor. Parc. Nat.
  Albert Mis. de Witte 49:  1-105.   Gordh, G. 
  1977.  A new Anagrus, important in the biological
  control of Stephanitis takeyai and a key to the North
  American species.  Fla. Ent.
  69(2):  85-95.   Graham, M. W. R. de V.  1981. 
  The Haliday collection of Mymaridae (Insecta, Hymenoptera,
  Chalcidoidea) with taxonomic notes on some material in other
  collections.  Proc. Roy. Irish Acad.
  82(B) 12:  12-242.   Hedqvist, K. 
  1960.  Hymenoptera
  (Chalcidoidea) Mymaridae.  In>  South African Animal Life, Vol. 7, Chapter 24.  Uppsala.   Jackson, D. 
  1966.  Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc.
  118:  23-49.   Nikol'skaya,
  M. N.  1952. 
  The chalcid fauna of the USSR (Chalcidoidea) Zool. Inst. Acad. Sci.
  USSR No. 44.  Moscow/Leningrad.  [translated from Russian by Israel program
  for Sci. Trans., Jerusalem, 1963].   Peck, O., Z. Bou
ek & A. Hoffer.  1964.  Keys to the
  Chalcidoidea of Czechoslovakia (Insecta: Hymenoptera).  Mem. Ent. Soc. Canad. 34.  120 p.   Prinsloo, G. L.  1980.  An illustrated
  guide to the families of African Chalcidoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera).  Rep. So. Africa, Dept. Agr. &
  Fisheries Sci. Bull. 395.  66 p.   Satterthwait, A. F.  1931.  J. NY. Ent. Soc.
  39:  171-90.   Schauff, M.
  E.  1984. 
  The Holarctic genera of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea).  Mem. Ent. Soc. Wash. 12:  1-67.   Subba-Rao,
  B. R. & M. Hayat.  1988.  Family Mymaridae.  In:  B. R. Subba-Rao, & M. Hayat (eds.),
  Oriental Insects, Vol. 19. 
  Association For The Study of Oriental. Insects, Gainesville, FL.  329 p.   Tooke, F. G. C.  1955.  The eucalyptus
  snout-beetle, Gonipterus scutellatus Gyll.  a study of its ecology and control by
  biological means.  Entomology Mem.
  Dept. Agr. Un. So. Afr. 3:  1-282.   Trjapitcyn, V. A.  1978/1987.  Family
  Mymaridae (Mymarids).  In: 
  G. S. Medvedev (ed.) 1987, Keys to the Insects of the European Part of
  the USSR. Vol. 3 Hymenoptera, Pt. 2.  Akad. Nauk., Zool. Inst., Leningrad, SSSR. (trans. fr. Russian,
  Amerind. Publ. Co., Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi). 
  1341 p.   Viggiani,
  G.  1974.  Notizie sui Mimaridi Terricoli, con proposte sinonimiche per il
  genere Cleruchus Enock.  Estr. del Boll. della Soc. Ent. Ital.
  106:  86-8.   Yoshimoto,
  C. M.  1971.  A
  new genus of Mymarid wasp (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae) from New
  Brunswick, Canada.  Canad. Ent.
  103:  1079-82.   Yoshimoto, C. M.  1975.  Cretaceous
  chalcidoid fossils from Canadian amber. 
  Canad. Ent. 107:  499-527.   Yoshimoto, C. M.  198_.  Genera of the New
  World Mymaridae.  [in preparation].   Yoshimoto, C. M.  1984.  The Insects and
  Arachnids of Canada. Part 12.  The
  Families and Subfamilies of Canadian Chalcidoid Wasps, Hymenoptera:
  Chalcidoidea.  Biosystematics Res.
  Inst., Ottawa, Ontario, Res. Br. Agr. Canada Publ. 1760.  149 p   |