Population characteristics and the nature of egg shells of two Phthirapteran species parasitizing Indian cattle egrets

Journal of Insect Science

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ahmad, Aftab ^a   Khan, Vikram ^a   Badola, Smita ^a   Arya, Gaurav ^a   Bansal, Nayanci ^a   Saxena, A K ^a  

^a Government Raza Postgraduate College   (India)

Author keywords

Amblycera; Ardeicola expallidus; Ciconiphilus decimfasciatus; Ischnocera

Indexed keywords

AMBLYCERA; ARDEICOLA; BOS; BUBULCUS; CICONIPHILUS; ISCHNOCERA; MENOPONIDAE; PHILOPTERIDAE; PHTHIRAPTERA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; INDIA; LOUSE; OOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; PEDICULOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; INDIA; LICE INFESTATIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OVUM; PHTHIRAPTERA; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78649265143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15362442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1673/031.010.14123     Document Type: Article

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