Plant-feeding and non-plant feeding phytoseiids: Differences in behavior and cheliceral morphology

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 341-357

  Adar, Einat ^a,b   Inbar, Moshe ^b   Gal, Shira ^a   Doron, Noam ^a   Zhang, Zhi Qiang ^c   Palevsky, Eric ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Amblyseius swirskii; Chelicerae; Euseius scutalis; Phytoseiidae; Predatory mites; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING MECHANISM; HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MITE; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACARI; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACARI; ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACARI; AMBLYSEIUS SWIRSKII; EUSEIUS SCUTALIS; PHYTOSEIIDAE;

EID: 84868613370     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-012-9589-y     Document Type: Article

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