Experimental evidence that the mite Poecilochirus davydovae (Mesostigmata: Parasitidae) eats the eggs of its beetle host

Journal of Zoology

Volumn 242, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-67

  Blackman, Stuart W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POECILOCHIRUS DAVYDOVAE; ACARI; CALLIPHORIDAE; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; NICROPHORUS VESPILLOIDES; SILPHIDAE;

BURYING BEETLE; CLUTCH SIZE; EGG PREDATION; PHORESY;

EID: 0030620354     PISSN: 09528369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1997.tb02929.x     Document Type: Article

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