Description of a new species of Orseolia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Paspalum in West Africa, with notes on its parasitoids, ecology and relevance to natural biological control of the African rice gall midge, O. oryzivora

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 441-448

  Harris, K M ^a   Williams, C T ^a   Okhidievbie, O ^a   LaSalle, J ^b   Polaszek, A ^b  

^a CABI   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APROSTOCETUS PROCERAE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; NEANASTATUS CINCTIVENTRIS; NEW SPECIES; NIGERIA; PARASITOID; PLATYGASTER DIPLOSISAE; RICE; WEST AFRICA;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; NEW SPECIES; PARASITOID;

(WEST); AFRICA;

APROSTOCETUS; APROSTOCETUS PROCERAE; CECIDOMYIIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; DIPTERA; NEANASTATUS; ORSEOLIA; ORSEOLIA BONZII; ORSEOLIA ORYZIVORA; ORYZA GLABERRIMA; ORYZA SATIVA; PASPALUM; PASPALUM SCROBICULATUM; PLATYGASTER; PLATYGASTER DIPLOSISAE; POACEAE;

EID: 0033391224     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0007485399000577     Document Type: Article

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