Temperature-Dependent Development of the Koinobiont Endoparasitoid Venturia canescens (Gravenhorst) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): Effect of Host Instar

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1049-1055

  Eliopoulos, Panagiotis A ^a   Stathas, George J ^a,b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KALAMATA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Development; Host instar; Temperature; Threshold; Venturia canescens

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERATURE;

ANAGASTA KUEHNIELLA; EPHESTIA; EPHESTIA KUEHNIELLA; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; KUEHNIELLA; LEPIDOPTERA; PYRALIDAE; VENTURIA CANESCENS;

EID: 0242583998     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.5.1049     Document Type: Article

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