Effects of a mixed species infestation on the cassava mealybug and its encyrtid parasitoids

Biological Control

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-10

  Dorn, Brigitte ^a,c   Mattiacci, Letizia ^a   Bellotti, Anthony C ^b   Dorn, Silvia ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Ctro Internacional de Agric Trop   (Colombia)

^c Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acerophagus coccois; Aenasius vexans; Behavior; Biological control; Cassava green mite; Cassava mealybug; Development; Diversity; Effectiveness; Generalist; Herbivore distribution; Parasitoid; Phenacoccus herreni; Specialist; Whitefly

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ACEROPHAGUS COCCOIS; AENASIUS VEXANS; ALEUROTRACHELUS SOCIALIS; ALEYRODIDAE; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; MONONYCHELLUS; MONONYCHELLUS PROGRESIVUS; MONONYCHELLUS TANAJOA; PHENACOCCUS; PHENACOCCUS HERRENI;

EID: 0037405643     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1049-9644(02)00180-9     Document Type: Article

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