Host age selection by the host-feeding pupal parasitoid Diadromus subtilicornis (Gravenhorst) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 549-556

  Viet Tran, Tan ^a   Takasu, Keiji ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diadromus subtilicornis; Host age selection; Host feeding; Oviposition; Plutella xylostella

Indexed keywords

DIADROMUS; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA;

EID: 0034311043     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2000.549     Document Type: Article

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