Discovery of cryptic species among North American pine-feeding Chionaspis scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-62

  Gwiazdowski, Rodger A ^a   Vea, Isabelle M ^b   Andersen, Jeremy C ^a,c   Normark, Benjamin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chionaspis heterophyllae; Chionaspis pinifoliae; Genealogical concordance; North America; Species delimitation

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANCESTRY; CONIFEROUS TREE; CRYPSIS; GENEALOGY; HOME RANGE; INSECT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; CHIONASPIS; CHIONASPIS PINIFOLIAE; DIASPIDIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; PINACEAE;

EID: 84860421454     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01716.x     Document Type: Article

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