Host specificity of fire ant decapitating flies (Diptera: Phoridae) in laboratory oviposition tests

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 110-114

  Porter, Sanford D ^a   Alonso, Leeanne E ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^b Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Brazil; Classical biological control; Parasitoid; Pseudacteon; Solenopsis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION;

APHAEOGASTER; BORGMEIER; CAMPONOTUS; CREMATOGASTER; DIPTERA; FORELIUS; FORMICIDAE; NEIVAMYRMEX; PHEIDOLE; PHORIDAE; PSEUDACTEON; PSEUDACTEON LITORALIS; PSEUDACTEON TRICUSPIS; PSEUDACTEON WASMANNI; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 0033043218     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jee/92.1.110     Document Type: Article

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