Morphological differences between sympatric populations of the Poecilochirus carabi complex (Acari: Mesostigmata: Parasitidae) associated with burying beetles (Silphidae: Nicrophorus)

Systematic Parasitology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 179-185

  Baker, Anne S ^a   Schwarz, Horst H ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POECILOCHIRUS CARABI;

EID: 0030743243     PISSN: 01655752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005822702267     Document Type: Article

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