Morphological, molecular and biological evidence reveal two cryptic species in Mecinus janthinus Germar (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), a successful biological control agent of Dalmatian toadflax, Linaria dalmatica (Lamiales, Plantaginaceae)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 741-753

  Toševski, Ivo ^a,b   Caldara, Roberto ^c   Jović, Jelena ^b   Hernández Vera, Gerardo ^d   Baviera, Cosimo ^e   Gassmann, Andre ^a   Emerson, Brent C ^d,f  

^a CABI   (Switzerland)

^b Institute for Plant Protection and Environment   (Serbia)

^c University of East Anglia ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^f INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CRYPSIS; DICOTYLEDON; HOST USE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; LAMIALES; LINARIA; LINARIA DALMATICA; LINARIA GENISTIFOLIA; LINARIA VULGARIS; MECINUS; PLANTAGINACEAE;

EID: 80052965574     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00593.x     Document Type: Article

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