The systematics and biology of the Costa Rican species of parasitic wasps in the Thyreodon genus-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 297-351

  Gauld, Ian D ^a   Janzen, Daniel H ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Area de Conservacion Guanacaste; Biodiversity; Caterpillar; Inventory; Parasitoid; Saturniidae; Sphingidae

Indexed keywords

BOMBYCOIDEA; EUPTEROTIDAE; EURYOPHION; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA; PHACELIA CONGESTA; SATURNIIDAE; SPHINGIDAE; THYREODON; THYREODON LATICINCTUS; VESPIDAE; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 3242803055     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00116.x     Document Type: Article

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