Unusual sex allocation in a solitary parasitoid wasp, Sphaeropthalma Pensylvanica (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae)

Great Lakes Entomologist

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 51-54

  Matthews, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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SPHAEROPTHALMA PENSYLVANICA;

EID: 0030812598     PISSN: 00900222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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