The Encarsia cubensis species-group (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 222-233

  Evans, Gregory A ^a   Polaszek, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aleurothrixus; Bemisia; Biological control; Encarsia; Nearctic; Neotropical; Parasitoids; Taxonomy; Whiteflies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000588212     PISSN: 00138797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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