Chemical ecology of mesostigmatid mites. I. Identification of hydroxymethylnaphthoquinones from Uroactinia hirschmanni Hiramatsu (Mesostigmata: Uropodidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-61

  Sakata, Tomoyo ^a   Hiramatsu, Nobuo ^b   Ishikawa, Kazuo ^c   Kuwahara, Yasumasa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kakumei Women's High School   (Japan)

^c Matsuyama Shinonome College   (Japan)

Author keywords

7 Methyljuglone; Body surface components; Mesostigmatid mite; Plumbagin; Uroactinia hirschmanni Hiramatsu

Indexed keywords

ACARI; MESOSTIGMATA; UROPODIDAE;

EID: 3042898474     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.32.57     Document Type: Article

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