Host recognition by the tick parasitoid Ixodiphagus hookeri (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 614-617

  Takasu, Keiji ^a   Takano, Shun Ichiro ^b   Sasaki, Mitsuru ^b   Yagi, Shigemi ^c   Nakamura, Satoshi ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Biological control; Host recognition; Ixodiphagus hookeri; Kairomone; Parasitoid; Tick

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CUE; HOST LOCATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; KAIROMONE;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM; ARTHROPODA; ENCYRTIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; IXODIDAE; IXODIPHAGUS HOOKERI;

EID: 0038573744     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.3.614     Document Type: Article

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