Distribution of chemo- and mechanoreceptors on the antennae and maxillae of Busseola fusca larvae

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-98

  Juma, Gerald ^a,c   Chimtawi, Mathayo ^a   Ahuya, Peter O ^a,b   Njagi, Peter G N ^a   Le Rü, Bruno ^a,b   Magoma, Gabriel ^c   Silvain, Jean François ^b,d   Calatayud, Paul André ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Contact chemoreceptors; Host plant recognition; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; Poaceae; Sensilla; Stem borer; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; CHEMORECEPTION; COLONY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; HOST PLANT; LARVA; MAIZE; MOTH; PEST SPECIES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RECOGNITION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SORGHUM; STEM BORER;

BUSSEOLA FUSCA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; POACEAE; SORGHUM BICOLOR; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 46249083496     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00673.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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