A comparison of volatiles emitted by adults of three triatomine species

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 151-155

  Guerenstein, P G ^a   Guerin, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alarm signal; Hemiptera; Insect vector; Isobutyric acid; Reduviidae; Rhodnius; Triatoma; Triatomine bug

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC EMISSION;

HEMIPTERA; INSECTA; REDUVIIDAE; RHODNIUS; TRIATOMA;

EID: 2442507846     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-8703.2004.00160.x     Document Type: Article

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