Morphological characterization of Ephedrus persicae biotypes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) in the Palaearctic

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-11

  Ẑikić, Vladimir ^a   Tomanović, Željko ^a   Ivanović, Ana ^a   Kavallieratos, Nickolas G ^b   Starý, Petr ^c   Stanisavljević, Ljubiša Ž ^a   Rakhshani, Ehsan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b BENAKI PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZABOL   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biotypes; Ephedrus persicae; Geometric morphometrics; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; APHID; BIOTYPE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NEW TAXON; PARASITOID; TAXONOMY; WING;

APHIDIDAE; APHIDIINAE; APHIS; BRACONIDAE; DYSAPHIS; EPHEDRUS; EPHEDRUS PERSICAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 58949092766     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/008.102.0101     Document Type: Article

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