The efficacy of baited and live capture pitfall traps in collecting large-bodied forest carabids.

New Zealand Entomologist

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-37

  Seldon, David S ^a   Beggs, Jacqueline R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

By catch; Coleoptera; Diptera; Insect sampling; Mecodema

Indexed keywords

CARABIDAE; CEPHALOPODA; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HOLCASPIS; INVERTEBRATA; MECODEMA;

EID: 78249252361     PISSN: 00779962     EISSN: 11793430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00779962.2010.9722189     Document Type: Article

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