Suitability of Bemisia argentifolii (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) Instars for the Parasitoid Eretmocerus mundus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1569-1573

  Jones, Walker A ^a   Greenberg, S M ^a,b  

^a KIKA DE LA GARZA SUBTROPICAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bemisia argentifolii; Development; Eretmocerus mundus; Host instar; Mortality; Survival

Indexed keywords

ALEYRODIDAE; APHELINIDAE; ARTHROPODA; BEMISIA ARGENTIFOLII; BEMISIA TABACI; ERETMOCERUS MUNDUS; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; IPOMOEA BATATAS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0006879091     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.6.1569     Document Type: Article

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