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<mods:title>Redescription of Mymarilla Westwood, new synonymies under Cremnomymar Ogloblin (Hymenoptera, Mymaridae) and discussion of unusual wings</mods:title>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://species-id.net/wiki/Mymarilla" authority="Westwood" class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymarilla Westwood</taxonomicName>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="47" type="reference_group">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymar" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymar" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymar</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation author="Westwood, JO" journalOrPublisher="Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology)" pageId="15" pageNumber="62" pagination="583 - 593" title="Descriptions of some minute hymenopterous insects." url="10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb00496.x" volume="1" year="1879">Westwood 1879</bibRefCitation>
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: 585 (
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla wollastoni" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wollastoni">Mymarilla wollastoni</taxonomicName>
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included, together with another, correctly placed species).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymarilla</taxonomicName>
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Westwood, 1879: 585 (footnote) + figs 8, 9 (recommended as a new genus group name for
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla wollastoni" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wollastoni">Mymarilla wollastoni</taxonomicName>
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"if it should be deemed necessary to separate this species from the genus
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymar" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymar" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymar</taxonomicName>
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").
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymar" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymar" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymar</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation author="Dalla Torre, CG de" journalOrPublisher="Guilelmi Engelmann, Lipsiae [Leipzig]" pageId="13" pageNumber="60" pagination="422 - 431" title="Subfam. Mymarinae. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 5: Chalcididae et Proctotrupidae." year="1898">Dalla Torre 1898</bibRefCitation>
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: 427 (
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymarilla</taxonomicName>
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treated as a synonym).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymarilla</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation author="Schmiedeknecht, O" journalOrPublisher="Genera Insectorum" pageId="14" pageNumber="61" pagination="1 - 550" title="Hymenoptera Fam. Chalcididae." volume="97" year="1909">Schmiedeknecht 1909</bibRefCitation>
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: 495 (treated as valid genus with one [incorrectly placed] species but no mention of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla wollastoni" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wollastoni">Mymarilla wollastoni</taxonomicName>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymar" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymar" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymar</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation author="Schmiedeknecht, O" journalOrPublisher="Genera Insectorum" pageId="14" pageNumber="61" pagination="1 - 550" title="Hymenoptera Fam. Chalcididae." volume="97" year="1909">Schmiedeknecht 1909</bibRefCitation>
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: 496 (listed M. Wollastoni [sic] together with three other species [one other of which is also incorrectly placed generically]).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymarilla</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation author="Ferriere, Ch" journalOrPublisher="Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft" pageId="13" pageNumber="60" pagination="41 - 43" title="Un nouveau genre de Mymaride (Hym.)." volume="25" year="1952">
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1952
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: 43 (treated as valid name for
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of authors, not Curtis).
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymarilla</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation author="Doutt, RL" journalOrPublisher="Insects of Micronesia" pageId="13" pageNumber="60" title="Insects of Micronesia. Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae and Mymaridae." volume="19" year="1955">Doutt 1955</bibRefCitation>
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: 11 (key), 12 (treated as valid genus, but noted that American authors used
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymar" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymar" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymar</taxonomicName>
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as the name for species included under
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymarilla</taxonomicName>
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by previous workers).
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymarilla</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation author="Heqvist, KJ" journalOrPublisher="South African Animal Life Results of the Lund University expedition in 1950 - 1951" pageId="14" pageNumber="61" pagination="423 - 432" title="Hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea) Mymaridae." volume="7" year="1960">Heqvist 1960</bibRefCitation>
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, 432 (treated as valid genus with one [incorrectly placed] species but no mention of
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).
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymarilla</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation author="Annecke, DP" journalOrPublisher="Department of Agricultural Technical Services, Republic of South Africa" pageId="13" pageNumber="60" pagination="1 - 71" title="The genera of the Mymaridae. Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea. Entomology Memoirs." volume="5" year="1961">Annecke and Doutt 1961</bibRefCitation>
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: 31 (discussion of past confusion with
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymar" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymar" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymar</taxonomicName>
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).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Type species.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla wollastoni" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wollastoni">Mymarilla wollastoni</taxonomicName>
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Westwood, by monotypy. Transferred (as genotype) to
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymarilla</taxonomicName>
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by
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<bibRefCitation author="Heqvist, KJ" journalOrPublisher="South African Animal Life Results of the Lund University expedition in 1950 - 1951" pageId="14" pageNumber="61" pagination="423 - 432" title="Hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea) Mymaridae." volume="7" year="1960">Heqvist (1960</bibRefCitation>
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: 432).
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The confusion in the use of the name
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and which species should be placed in the genus continued for over 80 years.
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<bibRefCitation author="Heqvist, KJ" journalOrPublisher="South African Animal Life Results of the Lund University expedition in 1950 - 1951" pageId="14" pageNumber="61" pagination="423 - 432" title="Hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea) Mymaridae." volume="7" year="1960">Heqvist (1960)</bibRefCitation>
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was the first to treat
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as the genotype of
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, even as he incorrectly placed
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species under it, as did previous authors. As
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<bibRefCitation author="Annecke, DP" journalOrPublisher="Department of Agricultural Technical Services, Republic of South Africa" pageId="13" pageNumber="60" pagination="1 - 71" title="The genera of the Mymaridae. Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea. Entomology Memoirs." volume="5" year="1961">Annecke and Doutt (1961)</bibRefCitation>
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clarified, wherever previous authors use
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it was clearly in the sense of
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, because the species names mentioned are typical
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species.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="47">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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The combination of smooth, shiny black body, extremely short mesocutum compared to much longer pronotum, and extraordinary convex and densely setose fore wing distinguish the genus and species from any other
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belongs clearly to the
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Halidaygroup of genera within
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sensu
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. They suggested that
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was most similar to
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Ogloblin from the Juan
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Islands. Superficially, the most similar genus is
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Ogloblin (including
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Ogloblinand
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Ogloblin, see below), some of whose species also have a convex fore wing and reduced mesoscutum. The two genera are not closely related; their resemblance is due to adaptations to life on remote, presumably wind-swept, oceanic islands.
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I propose instead that
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is derived from
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Enock, likely the most closely related genus. Four features, shared with
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, suggest this: first, the extremely smooth body without trace of microscupture on the mesosoma (Figs 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10); second, the slightly advanced mesothoracic spiracle about midway between the anterior apex of a notaulus and posterolateral angle of the mesoscutum (Figs 3, 4); third, the presence of a metapleural pit (Figs 9, 10); fourth, the fore wings that are held more or less horizontally. In dead specimens of
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, the fore wings are often horizontal, crossed scissor-like and covering the body, unlike other, related genera in the
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Polynema" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Polynema" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Polynema</taxonomicName>
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-group where the wings (in dead specimens) are almost always vertical, directed away from the body. The strong convexity of the fore wings of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Mymarilla</taxonomicName>
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would appear to prevent them from being crossed scissor-like over the body. Yet they are presumably capable of enveloping the metasoma, as pointed out by Westwood who noted "... when shut [the fore wings] form a semiglobular dome over the abdomen" when the wasp is at rest. The densely hairy wing membrane with dark base around each microtrichia would allow for maximum heat absorption and retention.
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<caption pageId="1" pageNumber="48">
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="48">
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Figures 1, 2.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla wollastoni" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wollastoni">Mymarilla wollastoni</taxonomicName>
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. 1 female dorsolateral 2 male antennae (pedicel + flagellum). Scale line = 1000
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Figures 3, 4.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla wollastoni" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wollastoni">Mymarilla wollastoni</taxonomicName>
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. 3 mesosoma, dorsal 4 head and mesosoma, dorsolateral. Scale line = 200
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Figures 5, 6.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Mymaridae" genus="Mymarilla" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Mymarilla wollastoni" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="1" pageNumber="48" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wollastoni">Mymarilla wollastoni</taxonomicName>
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. 5 head and prothorax, lateral 6 head and thorax, anterolateral. Scale line = 200
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