The distributions of parasitoids (Hymenoptera) of Anastrepha fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) along an altitudinal gradient in Veracruz, Mexico

Biological Control

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 258-269

  Sivinski, John ^a   Piñero, Jaime ^b   Aluja, Martin ^b  

^a CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Biological control; Braconidae; Diapriidae; Eucoilidae; Eulophidae; Pteromalidae

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MEXICO; PARASITISM; PARASITOID;

ANASTREPHA; ANIMALIA; BRACONIDAE; CITRUS AURANTIUM; DIACHASMIMORPHA LONGICAUDATA; DIAPRIIDAE; DIPTERA; DORYCTOBRACON AREOLATUS; DORYCTOBRACON CRAWFORDI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUCOILIDAE; EULOPHIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; OPIUS; PSIDIUM GUAJAVA; PTEROMALIDAE; SPONDIAS MOMBIN; TEPHRITIDAE; UTETES ANASTREPHAE;

EID: 0342656488     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.2000.0836     Document Type: Article

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