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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Psyche Volume 2010, Article ID 278643, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2010/278643 Research Article Survey of the Aphid Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) of Costa Rica with Information on Their Aphid (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea): Plant Associations ´ 1 1 ´2 Daniel Zamora Mejıas, Paul E. Hanson, and Petr Stary 1 Laboratorio Entomolog´ıa, Escuela de Biolog´ıa, Universidad de Costa Rica, A.P.2060, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, 2060 San Jos´e, Costa Rica 2 Laboratory of Aphidology, Department of Experimental Ecology, Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre, ˇ Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Braniˇsovsk´a 31, 370 05 Cesk´e Budˇejovice, Czech Republic ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Daniel Zamora Mejıas, zamora.ac.ucr.josedaniel@ Received 23 July 2010; Accepted 7 October 2010 Academic Editor: Martin H. Villet ´ Copyright © 2010 Daniel Zamora Mejıas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Species of Aphidiinae (Braconidae) have never been surveyed in Central America. Here we present the results of an initial inventory of the aphidiine species of Costa Rica and record the presence of ten species (four undetermined), in six genera. The material was obtained by rearing aphids from both crop and noncrop plants throughout the country. In total 283