Parasitism of Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) by Pseudapanteles dignus (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) under laboratory conditions

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 887-893

  Luna, María G ^a   Sánchez, Norma E ^a   Pereyra, Patricia C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biological control; Functional response; Host parasitoid interaction; Pseudapanteles dignus; Tuta absoluta

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP PLANT; FRUIT; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY; MOTH; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; SEX RATIO; WASP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MOTHS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL;

BRACONIDAE; GELECHIIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PSEUDAPANTELES DIGNUS; TUTA ABSOLUTA;

EID: 34548177005     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[887:POTALG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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