Symptoms shown by late-stage larvae of the West Indian sweet potato weevil Euscepes postfasciatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) infected with Farinocystis sp. (Neogregarinida: Lipotrophidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 245-254

  Tsurui, Kaori ^a,b,c   Ohishi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Kumano, Norikuni ^a,b,c   Teruya, Kiyohito ^a   Toyosato, Tetsuya ^a,b   Shiromoto, Keiko ^a,b  

^a Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center Miyakojima   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body size; Euscepes postfasciatus; Morphological symptoms; Neogregarine Farinocystis sp; Sterile insect techniques (SIT)

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; CYLAS FORMICARIUS; EUSCEPES POSTFASCIATUS; HEXAPODA; LIPOTROPHIDAE; NEOGREGARINIDA;

EID: 84928800424     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: 1347605X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13355-015-0329-8     Document Type: Article

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