Tachinidae (Diptera) parasitoids of bertha armyworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-28

  O'Hara, James E ^a  

^a OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROP DAMAGE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PARASITE;

NORTH AMERICA;

ATHRYCIA; ATHRYCIA CINEREA; BLONDELIA; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; CHETOGENA CLARIPENNIS; CHETOGENA TACHINOMOIDES; DIPTERA; EURITHIA; EURITHIA CONSOBRINA; EXORISTA MELLA; FABRICIUS; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; LESPESIA ARCHIPPIVORA; MAMESTRA CONFIGURATA; MYTHIMNA UNIPUNCTA; NOCTUIDAE; PANZERIA; PANZERIA AMPELUS; PHRYXE; PHRYXE PECOSENSIS; PHRYXE VULGARIS; SINAPIS ARVENSIS; SPALLANZANIA; SPALLANZANIA HEBES; TACHINIDAE; WINTHEMIA; WINTHEMIA QUADRIPUSTULATA; WINTHEMIA RUFOPICTA;

EID: 0033020032     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/Ent13111-1     Document Type: Article

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