Oviposition mechanisms in the whitefly parasitoids Encarsia transvena and Eretmocerus mundus

BioControl

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 289-297

  Gerling, Dan ^a   Quicke, Donald L J ^b,c   Orion, Tamar ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aphelinidae; Bemisia tabaci; Chalcidoidea; Cuticle; Host feeding; Host penetration; Ovipositor; Parasitic wasp

Indexed keywords

ALEYRODIDAE; APHELINIDAE; BEMISIA TABACI; CHALCIDOIDEA; ENCARSIA; ENCARSIA TRANSVENA; ERETMOCERUS; ERETMOCERUS MUNDUS; IPOMOEA BATATAS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRANSVENA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0037493638     PISSN: 13866141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009905525300     Document Type: Article

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