Subfamily composition of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) from western Amazonia: Insights into diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps

Insect Conservation and Diversity

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-37

  Veijalainen, Anu ^a   Sääksjärvi, Ilari E ^a   Erwin, Terry L ^b   Gómez, Isrrael C ^a   Longino, John T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Canopy; Idiobiont; Koinobiont; Neotropics; Parasitoid wasps; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872875084     PISSN: 1752458X     EISSN: 17524598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00185.x     Document Type: Article

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