Biodiversity of Hymenoptera

Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 303-323

  Huber, John T ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity of Hymenoptera; Cynipoidea; International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species; Minute parasitoids of eggs of other insects best known because of genus Trichogramma; Mymarommatoidea; Platygastridae and Scelionidae small species, most of which (except Platygastrinae) are egg parasitoids; Societal benefits and detriments of Hymenoptera; Sphecoid wasps all carnivorous; Taxonomic and biological information on main Hymenopteran groups; Xyelidae most primitive living Hymenoptera

Indexed keywords

EID: 72849145603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308211.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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