Parasitoid assemblages reared from geometrid defoliators (lepidoptera: geometridae) of larch and fir in the alps

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 307-318

  Kenis, Marc ^a   Herz, Kathrin ^a   West, Richard J ^b   Shaw, Mark R ^c  

^a CABI   (Switzerland)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geometridae; Guild; Host range; Larch defoliators; Parasitoids

Indexed keywords

ABIES; AGRIOPIS AURANTIARIA; BUPALUS PINIARIA; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; EUPITHECIA; GEOMETRIDAE; LARIX; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCIA; SEMIOTHISA; TENTHREDINIDAE; TORTRICIDAE;

EID: 33745414418     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9555.2005.00277.x     Document Type: Article

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