Responses of the weed Parthenium hysterophorus (Asteraceae) to the stem gall-inducing weevil Conotrachelus albocinereus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 195-206

  Florentine, Singarayer K ^a   Raman, Anantanarayanan ^b   Dhileepan, Kunjithapatham ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conotrachelus albocinereus Fiedler 1940; Galling behaviour; Host plant responses; Parthenium hysterophorus Linnaeus; Water logging stress

Indexed keywords

ASTERACEAE; COLEOPTERA; CONOTRACHELUS; CONOTRACHELUS ALBOCINEREUS; CURCULIONIDAE; PARTHENIUM; PARTHENIUM HYSTEROPHORUS;

EID: 0036998904     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/26/2002/195     Document Type: Article

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