Fortuitous parasitoids of the invasive tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta in Tunisia

Phytoparasitica

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 85-92

  Abbes, Khaled ^a,b   Biondi, Antonio ^b   Zappalà, Lucia ^b   Chermiti, Brahim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological control; Bracon sp; Invasive pest; Necremnus sp; Sentinel plant

Indexed keywords

AGROMYZIDAE; BRACON; BRACON SP.; BRACONIDAE; EULOPHIDAE; GELECHIIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NECREMNUS; TUTA ABSOLUTA;

EID: 84893721078     PISSN: 03342123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12600-013-0341-x     Document Type: Article

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