Semiochemical-mediated location of host habitat by Apanteles carpatus (say) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a parasitoid of clothes moth larvae

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 459-472

  Takács, Stephen ^a   Gries, Gerhard ^a   Gries, Regine ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apanteles carpatus; Braconidae; coup led gas chromatographic electroantennographic detection; geranylacetone; host habitat location; Hymenoptera; Lepidoptera; nonanal; semioc hemicals; Tinea pellionella; Tineidae; tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APANTELES; APANTELES CARPATUS; BRACONIDAE; CASTOR FIBER; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; TINEA; TINEA PELLIONELLA; TINEIDAE;

EID: 0030893573     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOEC.0000006371.64333.c2     Document Type: Article

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