A review of the genus Platecrizotes Ferrière (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) with the description of a new species from India
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The genus Platecrizotes Ferrière (1934) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) is reviewed, and a new species, P. keralensis is described from India. Affinities of the new species with the other known species are discussed and a key to the world species is also provided.
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