Longest insect dormancy: Yucca moth larvae (lepidoptera: prodoxidae) metamorphose after 20, 25, and 30 years in diapause

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 677-680

  Powell, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agavaceae; Nevada; Prodoxus y inversus; Prolonged diapause; Yucca baccata

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347145851     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0677:LIDYML]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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