Seasonal patterns of activity among species of black fire ant parasitoid flies (Pseudacteon: Phoridae) in Argentina explained by analysis of climatic variables

Biological Control

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 368-378

  Folgarait, Patricia J ^a   Bruzzone, Octavio A ^a   Gilbert, Lawrence E ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Buenos Aires; Circannual; Fire ants; Pseudacteon; Solenopsis richteri

Indexed keywords

BORGMEIER; DIPTERA; FORMICIDAE; PHORIDAE; PSEUDACTEON; PSEUDACTEON BORGMEIERI; PSEUDACTEON COMATUS; PSEUDACTEON CURVATUS; PSEUDACTEON NUDICORNIS; PSEUDACTEON TRICUSPIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS RICHTERI;

EID: 0142153894     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1049-9644(03)00093-8     Document Type: Article

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