Behavioral responses in prey location of the predatory stink bug, Eocanthecona furcellata, to chemical cues in the larvae of Spodoptera litura

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-96

  Yasuda, Tetsuya ^a   Wakamura, Sadao ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eocanthecona furcellata; Heteroptera; Pentatomidae; predatory stink bug; prey location; Spodoptera litura

Indexed keywords

EOCANTHECONA FURCELLATA; SPODOPTERA LITURA; HETEROPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; PENTATOMIDAE;

CHEMICAL CUE; OLFACTOMETER; PREDATORY STINK BUG; PREY LOCATION;

EID: 0029659399     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1996.tb02018.x     Document Type: Article

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