Current status of invasive alien birch-leafmining sawflies (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) in Canada, with keys to species

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 201-235

  Digweed, Scott C ^a   MacQuarrie, Chris J K ^b   Langor, David W ^a   Williams, Daryl J M ^a   Spence, John R ^b   Nystrom, Kathryn L ^c   Morneau, Louis ^d  

^a NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^d MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FLY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LARVA; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PEST OUTBREAK; PEST SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CANADA;

FENUSA; HETERARTHRUS NEMORATUS; HYMENOPTERA; PROFENUSA THOMSONI; SYMPHYTA; TENTHREDINIDAE;

EID: 77649252483     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/n09-003     Document Type: Article

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