Patterns of Host Specificity in Pseudacteon Parasitoid Flies (Diptera: Phoridae) that Attack Solenopsis Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1149-1154

  Gilbert, Lawrence E ^a   Morrison, Lloyd W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Host specificity; Parasitism; Parasitoid; Pseudacteon; Solenopsis

Indexed keywords

BORGMEIER; DIPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; PHORIDAE; PSEUDACTEON CURVATUS; PSEUDACTEON LITORALIS; PSEUDACTEON TRICUSPIS; PSEUDACTEON WASMANNI; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 0000457851     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/26.5.1149     Document Type: Article

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