Parasitoids use odor cues from infested plants and herbivore hosts to locate their hosts. Specialist parasitoids of generalist herbivores are predicted to rely more on herbivorederived cues than plant-derived cues. Mi...
supported by the Digitization Construction of Insect Specimen of Nature Reserve from MST(2005DKA21404)
A new species of Microplitis Foerster 1862:Microplitis vitellipedis,sp.nov.(♀) is described from China,Fujian,Mt.Wuyi.The new species is similar to Microplitis changbaishana Song et Chen.but has the following diff...
This work was supported by the grants from the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (No. G2000016209), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30530540) and 0pen-funding of the State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol at Sun YatSen University (No. 0404)
Microplitis bicoloratus is a braconid endoparasitic wasp associated with the polydnavirus named Microplitis bicoloratus bracovirus (MbBV). Parasitism of Spodoptera litura larvae leads to an impaired cellular immune ...