Adult mosquitoes parasitized by larval water mites in Pennsylvania

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 31-39

  Kirkhoff, Christopher J ^a,b   Simmons, Thomas W ^a   Hutchinson, Michael ^a,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; MITE; MORPHOTYPE; MOSQUITO; NEW RECORD; PARASITE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER RESOURCE;

AEDES; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; COQUILLETTIDIA; CULEX; FEMALE; HOST; LARVA; MALE; MITE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OCHLEROTATUS; ORTHOPODOMYIA; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITISM; PSOROPHORA; UNITED STATES; WATER MITE;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MITES; PENNSYLVANIA;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873690566     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3105.1     Document Type: Article

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