Effect of the host plant on the survivorship of parasitized Chilo partellus Swinhoe (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) larvae and performance of its larval parasitoid Cotesia flavipes Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Biological Control

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 183-190

  Sétamou, Mamoudou ^a,b   Jiang, Nanqing ^a   Schulthess, Fritz ^a  

^a ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chilo partellus; Cotesia flavipes; Host plant; Maize; Napier grass; Parasitism; Tritrophic interaction; Wild and cultivated sorghum

Indexed keywords

BRACONIDAE; CHILO PARTELLUS; COTESIA FLAVIPES; CRAMBINAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PENNISETUM PURPUREUM; POACEAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 11844251198     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2004.09.008     Document Type: Article

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