Larval cannibalism during the late developmental stages of a facultatively gregarious encyrtid endoparasitoid

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 669-676

  Tena, Alejandro ^a   Kapranas, Apostolos ^b   Garcia Marí, Ferran ^a   Luck, Robert F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cannibalism; Encyrtidae; Gregariousness; Larval competition; Metaphycus; Parasitoid; Superparasitism

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CANNIBALISM; ENDOPARASITE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE SCARCITY; WASP;

ENCYRTIDAE; METAPHYCUS; METAPHYCUS FLAVUS;

EID: 70349137842     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01116.x     Document Type: Article

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