Eremocoris depressus barber: Hosts, seasonality, and first new england records of a pine seed specialist (heteroptera: lygaeidae)

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 767-773

  Wheeler, A G ^a  

^a Bureau of Plant Industry   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution; Host specialization; Insecta; Pine barrens; Seed bugs

Indexed keywords

EREMOCORIS DEPRESSUS;

EID: 0030466935     PISSN: 00138797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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