Evaluation of the impact of the fruit fly parasitoid Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on a nontarget tephritid, Eutreta xanthochaeta (Diptera: Tephritidae)

Biological Control

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 58-64

  Duan, Jian J ^a   Ahmad, Mukhtar ^a   Joshi, Kailash ^a   Messing, Russell H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA   (United States)

Author keywords

biological control; Diachasmimorpha longicaudata; Eutreta xanthochaeta; Lantana camara; nontarget effects; tephritidae

Indexed keywords

BACTROCERA DORSALIS; BRACONIDAE; DIACHASMIMORPHA LONGICAUDATA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUTRETA XANTHOCHAETA; HYMENOPTERA; LANTANA; LANTANA CAMARA; PSIDIUM GUAJAVA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 0031035748     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1996.0487     Document Type: Article

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