Patterns of parasitoid-host associations in differentially parasitized macrolepidopteran assemblages on Black Willow Salix nigra (Marsh) and Box Elder Acer negundo L.

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 75-85

  Barbosa, Pedro ^a   Caldas, Astrid ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Braconidae; Differential parasitism; Eulophidae; Ichneumonidae; Larval parasitism; Lepidoptera; Plant mediated parasitism; Tachinidae

Indexed keywords

ACER; ACER NEGUNDO; BRACONIDAE; CAPPARIS CYNOPHALLOPHORA; EULOPHIDAE; ICHNEUMONIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; MACROLEPIDOPTERA; SALIX; SALIX NIGRA; SAMBUCUS NIGRA CANADENSIS; TACHINIDAE;

EID: 1142293900     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1439-1791-00213     Document Type: Article

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