Clutch Size Regulation and Host Discrimination of the Parasitoid Fly, Exorista japonica (Diptera: Tachinidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 283-291

  Nakamura, Satoshi ^a  

^a JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clutch size; Exorista japonica; Host discrimination; Ovipositional behaviour; Tachinidae

Indexed keywords

DIPTERA; EXORISTA; EXORISTA JAPONICA; JAPONICA; TACHINIDAE;

EID: 0031506777     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.32.283     Document Type: Article

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