Blosystematics of the cotesia flavipes species complex (hymenoptera: braconidae), parasitoids of the gramineous stemborers

Insect Science and its Application

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 119-130

  Kimani NjoGu, Susan W ^a   Overholt, William A ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Biosystematics; Cotesia chilonis; Cotesia sesamiae; Cotesiaflavipes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000947320     PISSN: 01919040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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