Biology of Tiphia pygidialis (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae), a parasitoid of masked chafer (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) grubs, with notes on the seasonal occurrence of Tiphia vernalis in Kentucky

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 520-527

  Rogers, Michael E ^a,b   Potter, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Host selection; Parasitoid; Scarabaeidae; Turfgrass

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; HOST SELECTION; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT;

KENTUCKY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

COLEOPTERA; CYCLOCEPHALA BOREALIS; CYCLOCEPHALA LURIDA; CYCLOCEPHALA PASADENAE; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; JAPONICA; MELOLONTHINAE; POACEAE; POPILLIA JAPONICA; SCARABAEIDAE; TIPHIA; TIPHIA PYGIDIALIS; TIPHIA VERNALIS; TIPHIIDAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 10644226017     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.3.520     Document Type: Article

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