Oviposition and feeding preferences of a flower‐feeding weevil, Coelocephalapion aculeatum, in relation to conspecific damage to its host‐plant

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 203-209

  Heard, Timothy A ^a  

^a CSIRO ENTOMOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apionidae; biological control; herbivory; insect plant interactions; Mimosa pigra; Mimosaceae; oviposition deterrence

Indexed keywords

FEEDING PREFERENCE; HERBIVORY; INSECT-PLANT INTERACTION; OVIPOSITION;

APIONIDAE; COELOCEPHALAPION ACULEATUM; COLEOPTERA; MIMOSA PIGRA; MIMOSACEAE;

EID: 0028982049     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1995.tb01963.x     Document Type: Article

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