Caterpillars and host plant records for 59 species of geometridae (Lepidoptera) from a montane rainforest in southern ecuador

Journal of Insect Science

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bodner, Florian ^a   Brehm, Gunnar ^b   Homeier, Jürgen ^c   Strutzenberger, Patrick ^a   Fiedler, Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Andes; host plant affiliations; insect herbivores; larval morphology; Neotropical Caterpillars; pupal morphology

Indexed keywords

FILICOPHYTA; GEOMETRIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; TACHINIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WASP;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MOTHS; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WASPS;

EID: 77955595288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15362442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1673/031.010.6701     Document Type: Article

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