Effects of host age and size on clutch size and sex ratio of Oomyzus sokolowskii (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), a larval-pupal parasitoid of Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 319-322

  Nakamura, Akiko ^a   Noda, Takashi ^b  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clutch size; Gregarious parasitoid; Koinobiont; Oomyzus (Tetranychus) sokolowskii; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

EULOPHIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; OOMYZUS SOKOLOWSKII; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; TETRANYCHUS; TETRASTICHUS; VESPIDAE; YPONOMEUTIDAE;

EID: 0036018835     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2002.319     Document Type: Article

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