Deterrent effect of a guild of extrafloral nectary-visiting ant species on Raphidopalpa foveicollis, a major insect pest of sponge gourd, Luffa cylindrica

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 303-311

  Agarwal, Vivek M ^a   Rastogi, Neelkamal ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Chrysomelidae; Coleoptera; Cucurbitaceae; Deterrency; Extrafloral nectaries; Formicidae; Hymenoptera; Indirect defence; Optimal defence hypothesis; Tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEETLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; FLOWER VISITING; GUILD; NECTAR;

CAMPONOTUS; CAMPONOTUS COMPRESSUS; CHRYSOMELIDAE; CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS; COLEOPTERA; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITACEAE; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; LUFFA; LUFFA AEGYPTIACA; PACHYCONDYLA; PARIA; PHEIDOLE; RAPHIDOPALPA FOVEICOLLIS; TAPINOMA MELANOCEPHALUM; TETRAMORIUM;

EID: 47249097137     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2008.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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