Specificity of chemical cues used by a specialist egg parasitoid during host location

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 151-159

  Meiners, Torsten ^a   Westerhaus, Christine ^a   Hilker, Monika ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Egg parasitoids; Elm leaf beetle; Host specificity; Kairomones; Oomyzus gallerucae; Synomones; Tritrophic level interactions; Ulmus

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; EGG PARASITOID; HOST LOCATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; KAIROMONE;

ACRONICTA LEPORINA; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; EULOPHIDAE; GALERUCA; GALERUCA TANACETI; GALERUCELLA LINEOLA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; OOMYZUS GALLERUCAE; OPISTHOGRAPTIS; OPISTHOGRAPTIS LUTEOLATA; PYRRHALTA; TETRASTICHUS; ULMUS; ULMUS GLABRA; ULMUS GLABRO; ULMUS MINOR; ULMUS MONTANA; XANTHOGALERUCA LUTEOLA;

EID: 0034126864     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1570-7458.2000.00653.x     Document Type: Article

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