How a ground-dwelling forest ant species favors the proliferation of an endemic scale insect (Hymenoptera: Formicidae; Homoptera: Stictococcidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 183-195

  Dejean, A ^a   Matile Ferrero, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Equatorial Africa; Formicidae: Anoplolepis tenella; Manioc; Stictococcidae: Stictococcus vayssierei; Trophobiosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030343084     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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