Destruction of floral buds in the bromeliad vriesea friburgensis by the phytophagous larvae of the wasp eurytoma sp in southern Brazil (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-172

  Grohme, Simone ^a   Steiner, Josefina ^b   Zillikens, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bromeliaceae; Bud sterilisation; Eurytoma Illiger 1807; Flower parasitism; Phytophagous wasp larvae; Southern Brazil; Vriesea friburgensis

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; BROMELIACEAE; EURYTOMA; EURYTOMIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; VRIESEA FRIBURGENSIS;

EID: 36549036733     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/30/2007/167     Document Type: Article

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