Longevity, egg load, and lack of host-quality preference in the hyperparasitoid eurytoma goidanichi Boucek (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 541-547

  Tagawa, Jun ^a   Aoki, Shinsuke ^a   Kiyosue, Toshiya ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cotesia glomerata; Egg load; Eurytoma; Host quality; Longevity

Indexed keywords

BRACONIDAE; COTESIA GLOMERATA; EURYTOMA; EURYTOMIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0034310223     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2000.541     Document Type: Article

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