Variations in life history traits and flight capacity among populations of the light brown apple moth Epiphyas postvittana (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

Austral Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 571-579

  Gu, Hainan ^a,b   Danthanarayana, Wijesiri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Epiphyas postvittana; Flight capacity; Genetic divergence; Interpopulation variation; Life history traits; Phenotypic plasticity; Tortricidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041634588     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2000.01056.x     Document Type: Article

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