Rate of strepsipteran parasitization among overwintered females of the hornet Vespa analis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 175-179

  Tatsuta, Haruki ^a,b   Makino, Shun'Ichi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forced hibernation; Morphological caste differentiation; Multivariate analysis; Vespa analis; Xenos moutoni

Indexed keywords

HIBERNATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; OVERWINTERING; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUEEN; WORKER CASTE;

HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; STREPSIPTERA; STYLOPIDAE; VESPA; VESPA ANALIS; VESPIDAE; XENOS; XENOS MOUTONI;

EID: 0037305408     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.1.175     Document Type: Article

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