Natural history of the mealybug-tending ant, Acropyga epedana, with descriptions of the male and queen castes

Transactions of the American Entomological Society

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 367-376

  LaPolla, John S ^a   Cover, Stefan P ^b   Mueller, Ulrich G ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acropyga; Arizona; Formicinae; Mealybug; Pseudococcidae; Trophobiosis

Indexed keywords

ACROPYGA; ACROPYGA EPEDANA; FORMICIDAE; FORMICINAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; PSEUDOCOCCIDAE;

EID: 0036996994     PISSN: 00028320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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