Role of volatile semiochemicals in host location by the egg parasitoid Anagrus breviphragma

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 311-316

  Chiappini, Elisabetta ^a   Salerno, Gianandrea ^b   Berzolla, Alessia ^a   Iacovone, Alessia ^b   Cristina Reguzzi, Maria ^a   Conti, Eric ^b  

^a UniversitaCattolica del Sacro Cuore   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carex riparia; Cicadella viridis; Cicadellidae; Cyperaceae; Hemiptera; Host selection behaviour; Hymenoptera; Indirect plant defences; Induced synomones; Mymaridae; Oviposition; VOCs

Indexed keywords

EGG PARASITOID; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; OVIPOSITION; PLANT DEFENSE; SEDGE; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE; WASP;

ANAGRUS BREVIPHRAGMA; CAREX HYALINOLEPIS; CICADELLA VIRIDIS; CICADELLIDAE; CYPERACEAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; MYMARIDAE;

EID: 84864388898     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2012.01290.x     Document Type: Article

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