Interactions between parasitoid hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) and diptera: Cyclorrhapha in nests of cavity-nesting birds

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 133-141

  Peters, Ralph ^a   Abraham, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birds' nests; Dibrachys cavus (Walker 1835); Nasonia vitripennis (Walker 1836); Parasitoids; Protocalliphora azurea (Fall n 1817); Triarthria setipennis (Fall n 1817); Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

AVES; CALLIPHORIDAE; CHALCIDOIDEA; DIBRACHYS CAVUS; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MUSCOMORPHA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; PROTOCALLIPHORA; PROTOCALLIPHORA AZUREA; PTEROMALIDAE; TACHINIDAE; TRIARTHRIA SETIPENNIS;

EID: 12244253364     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/27/2004/133     Document Type: Article

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