Mating, nesting and flower association of the East Mediterranean pollen wasp Ceramius bureschi in Greece (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Masarinae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-26

  Mauss, Volker ^a   Müller, Andreas ^b   Prosi, Rainer ^c  

^a STAATLICHES MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Abteilung Entomologie ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Activity; Behaviour; Bionomics; Brood provisioning; Ceramius bureschi Atanassov 1938; Flower ecology; Nigella; Pollen uptake; Pollen wasps; Ranunculaceae; Resource based mating system

Indexed keywords

HYMENOPTERA; NIGELLA; NIGELLA ARVENSIS; RANUNCULACEAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 33947633966     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/29/2006/1     Document Type: Review

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