Contents
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Overview: History of Agricultural Entomology and Biological
Pest Control in Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Javad Karimi and Shokoofeh Kamali
Part I Predators
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Lady Beetles; Lots of Efforts but few Successes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Hossein Madadi
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Biological Control of Pests by Mites in Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Hamidreza Hajiqanbar and Azadeh Farazmand
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Applied Ecology of Some Predacious Mites in Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Hossein Madadi and Hashem Kamali
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Lacewings: Research and Applied Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Mahdi Hassanpour, Mohammad Asadi, Ali Jooyandeh,
and Hossein Madadi
Part II Parasitoids
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Egg Parasitoids: Chalcidoidea with Particular Emphasis
on Trichogrammatidae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Shahzad Iranipour and Nahid Vaez
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Parasitic Wasps: Chalcidoidea and Ichneumonoidea . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Hossein Lotfalizadeh and Abbas Mohammadi-Khoramabadi
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Superfamily Platygastroidea: Natural Enemies of True
Bugs, Moths, Other Insects, and Spiders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Shahzad Iranipour
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Aphid Parasitoids: Aphidiinae (Hym., Braconidae) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Ehsan Rakhshani and Petr Starý
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