Life cycle and biological control of the Eucalyptus snout beetle (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) by Anaphes nitens (Hymenoptera, Mymaridae) in north-west Spain

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-109

  Rivera, Adolfo Cordero ^a   Carbone, Serena Santolamazza ^a   Andrés, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anaphes nitens; Biological control; Gonipterus scutellatus; Local extinction; Parasitoid density dependence; Population oscillations

Indexed keywords

ANAPHES NITENS; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; EUCALYPTUS; GONIPTERUS; GONIPTERUS SCUTELLATUS; HYMENOPTERA; MYMARIDAE;

EID: 0042176864     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-9563.1999.00016.x     Document Type: Article

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