Interaction between a nucleopolyhedrovirus and the braconid parasitoid Meteorus pulchricornis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in the larvae of Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 325-334

  Nguyen, Dung Hoang ^a,b   Nakai, Madoka ^a   Takatsuka, Jun ^a,c   Okuno, Shohei ^a   Ishii, Takayoshi ^a   Kunimi, Yasuhisa ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Plant Protection Sub department of Tien Giang Province   (Viet Nam)

^c FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Competition; Interaction; Meteorus pulchricornis; Nucleopolyhedrovirus; Spodoptera litura

Indexed keywords

BRACONIDAE; CYPOVIRUS; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; METEORUS PULCHRICORNIS; NOCTUIDAE; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; SPODOPTERA LITURA;

EID: 25444488530     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2005.325     Document Type: Article

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