Artificial rearing of the red cotton bug, Dysdercus cingulatus using cotton seed-based artificial diet (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 283-288

  Sahayaraj, Kitherian ^a   Tomson, Majesh ^a   Kalidas, Subramanian ^a  

^a MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Artificial diet; Chemical composition; Cotton pest; Dysdercus cingulatus (Fabricius 1775); Growth; Life history; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893267214     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/33/2012/283     Document Type: Article

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