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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.
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1904. Classification of the chalcid
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R. 1948. Etude sur les Mymarommidae et les
Mymaridae de la Belgique (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Mém. Mus.
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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.
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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.
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M. N. 1952.
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B. R. & M. Hayat. 1988. Family Mymaridae. In: B. R. Subba-Rao, & M. Hayat (eds.),
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snout-beetle, Gonipterus scutellatus Gyll. a study of its ecology and control by
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Mymaridae (Mymarids). In:
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the USSR. Vol. 3 Hymenoptera, Pt. 2. Akad. Nauk., Zool. Inst., Leningrad, SSSR. (trans. fr. Russian,
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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.
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chalcidoid fossils from Canadian amber.
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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:
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