Thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) on the flowers of a dioecious plant, Dioscorea japonica (Dioscoreaceae)

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 712-715

  Mizuki, Inoue ^a   Osawa, Naoya ^a   Tsutsumi, Tadaaki ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; THRIPS;

DIOSCOREA ALATA; DIOSCOREA JAPONICA; DIOSCOREACEAE; THRIPIDAE; THYSANOPTERA;

EID: 32044434938     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/N05-003     Document Type: Article

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