A solitary mud-daubing wasp, Brachymenes dyscherus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) fron Brazil with evidence of a life-cycle polyphenism

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 949-958

  Camillo, Evandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Eumeninae; Insecta; Natural enemies; Nest structure; Polyphenism; Wasps

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041760431     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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