Postdiapause development and hatching rate of three grasshopper species (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in Inner Mongolia

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1528-1534

  Hao, Shu Guang ^a   Kang, L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Grasshoppers; Hatch rate; Overwintering egg; Postdiapause development

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EGG DEVELOPMENT; GRASSHOPPER; HATCHING; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL; WORLD;

ACRIDIDAE; ANGARACRIS; ANGARACRIS BARABENSIS; CHORTHIPPUS; CHORTHIPPUS DUBIUS; INVERTEBRATA; OEDALEUS ASIATICUS; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 11144226805     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.6.1528     Document Type: Article

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