Host-plant specificity limits the geographic distribution of thistle feeding ladybird beetles

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 165-171

  Koizumi, Tatsuya ^a   Fujiyama, Naoyuki ^a   Katakura, Haruo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C. alpicola; C. grayanum; Cirsium kamtschaticum; E. niponica; Epilachna pustulosa; Food preference; Geographic distribution; Host related performance

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOST SPECIFICITY;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; OSHIMA PENINSULA;

ANIMALIA; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM ALPICOLA; CIRSIUM GRAYANUM; CIRSIUM KAMTSCHATICUM; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; EPILACHNA NIPONICA; EPILACHNA PUSTULOSA;

EID: 0033306197     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.1999.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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