Nectar from a wax plant, Hoya sp., as a carbohydrate source for Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 443-446

  Petts, S L ^a,b   Tang, Y ^a   Ward, R D ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CAB International Institute of Parasitology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE; SUGAR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LABORATORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PSYCHODIDAE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FOOD; MALE; PLANTS; PSYCHODIDAE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; HOYA; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; PSYCHODIDAE;

EID: 0030749677     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989761085     Document Type: Article

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