Visual and Olfactory Female-Borne Cues Evoke Male Courtship in the Aphid Parasitoid Aphidius colemani Viereck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Journal of Insect Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 695-707

  Benelli, Giovanni ^a,b   Giunti, Giulia ^a,b   Messing, Russell H ^c   Wright, Mark G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphis gossypii; biological control; mass rearing; Myzus persicae; parasitic wasp; wing fanning

Indexed keywords

APHIDIDAE; APHIDIUS COLEMANI; APHIS GOSSYPII; BRACONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MYZUS PERSICAE; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 84881027271     PISSN: 08927553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10905-013-9386-4     Document Type: Article

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