Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) of northeastern Iran: Aphidiine-aphid-plant associations, key and description of a new species

Journal of Insect Science

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rakhshani, Ehsan ^a   Kazemzadeh, Sedigheh ^a   Starý, Petr ^b   Barahoei, Hossein ^a   Kavallieratos, Niçkolas G ^c   Ćetković, Aleksandar ^d   Popović, Andelka ^d   Bodlah, Lmran ^e   Tomanović, Željko ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZABOL   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c BENAKI PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^e PMAS ARID AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Trioxys metacarpalis n.sp.; tritrophic associations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; HISTOLOGY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOPTERA; IRAN; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HYMENOPTERA; IRAN; MALE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANTS; REPRODUCTION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874622750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15362442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1673/031.012.14301     Document Type: Article

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