Wing morphometry helps diagnose cryptic species and resurrect Mindarus pinicolus (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 970-981

  Favret, Colin ^a,b  

^a AphidNet LLC   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminant functions; DNA barcodes; Mindarus abietinus

Indexed keywords

APHID; CRYPSIS; CYTOCHROME; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; TAXONOMY; WING MORPHOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ABIES; APHIDIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MINDARUS; MINDARUS ABIETINUS; PINICOLA;

EID: 77649255885     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/008.102.0607     Document Type: Article

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