Spatial patterns of parasitism of the solitary parasitoid pseudapanteles dignus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on Tuta absolute (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 365-374

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

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biological control; Host parasitoid interaction; Lycopersicon esculentum; Spatial scales

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP PEST; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FRUIT; HORTICULTURE; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LARVA; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; PERSISTENCE; REFUGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; WASP;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MOTHS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; WASPS;

SOUTH AMERICA;

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

EID: 65249088513     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/022.038.0208     Document Type: Article

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