Parasitoid vibrations as potential releasing stimulus of evasive behaviour in a leafminer

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-43

  Bacher, Sven ^a   Casas, Jérôme ^b,c   Dorn, Silvia ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Parc Grandmont   (France)

Author keywords

Evasive behaviour; Laser vibrometry; Leafminer; Mechanoreception; Parasitoid; Phyllonorycter; Sensory ecology; Sympiesis; Vibratory communication

Indexed keywords

PARASITOID; VIBRATION;

EULOPHIDAE; GRACILLARIIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHYLLONORYCTER MALELLA; SYMPIESIS SERICEICORNIS;

EID: 0030480831     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.1996.tb00832.x     Document Type: Article

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