Yuccas, yucca moths, and coevolution: A review

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-55

  Pellmyr, Olle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Hesperoyucca; Mutualism; Parategeticula; Prodoxidae; Tegeticula; Yucca; Yucca moth

Indexed keywords

AGAVACEAE; ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; MYA; PARATEGETICULA; PRODOXIDAE; TEGETICULA; TEGETICULA YUCCASELLA; YUCCA;

EID: 0037283904     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3298524     Document Type: Review

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