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Notes: Aphytis lingnanensis is one of the most effective natural enemies of the California red scale, Aonidiella aurantii and has been successfully used in the biological control of this important pest; this study attempts to establish the systematic relationships between morphologically identical biparental and uniparental lines of A. lingnanensis from different geographical sources; reciprocal crosses were performed between A. lingnanensis from California (the type population) and lines from South Africa, Israel, the Philippines (biparental and uniparental), and a mixture of lines from Texas and Hong Kong; results showed that A. lingnanensis from California was compatible with all biparental lines but the South African one.