Into the wood and back: Morphological adaptations to the wood-boring parasitoid lifestyle in adult aulacid wasps (Hymenoptera: Aulacidae)

Journal of Hymenoptera Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 244-258

  Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio ^a   Vilhelmsen, Lars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AULACIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 78649790804     PISSN: 10709428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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