Spectral efficiency of the glasshouse whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum and Encarsia formosa its hymenopteran parasitoid

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-20

  Mellor, H E ^a   Bellingham, J ^b   Anderson, M ^c  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aleyrodidae; Aphelinidae; electroretinogram; Homoptera; vision; wavelength discrimination

Indexed keywords

ALEYRODIDAE; APHELINIDAE; ENCARSIA FORMOSA; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; TRIALEURODES VAPORARIORUM;

EID: 0030943161     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1997.00152.x     Document Type: Article

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