Host range and host specificity of an ant-pathogenic gregarine parasite, mattesia geminata (Neogregarinida: Lipotrophidae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 93-104

  Buschinger, Alfred ^a   Kleespies, Regina G ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological control; Formicidae: Myrmicinae, Dolichoderinae; Host range; Host specificity; Infestation; Leptothorax Mayr 1855; Mattesia geminata Jouvenaz Anthony 1979; Monomorium pharaonis (Linnaeus 1758); Myrafant M R Smith 1950; Temnothorax Mayr 1861

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011472317     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/24/1999/93     Document Type: Article

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