Molecular and Field Analyses of Bathyplectes spp. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in Alfalfa Systems in Virginia

Bathyplectes anurus (Thomson) and B. curculionis (Thomson) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) are specialist parasitoids introduced to the United States for classical biological control of alfalfa weevil, Hypera postica (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Adults of both species are morphologically similar, gene...

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Main Author: Moore, Lisa Marie
Other Authors: Entomology
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/47793