Depression of dispersal of the female green leafhopper (GLH) Nephotettix virescens by pipunculid parasitism and ovarian maturation

Publication Type:Journal Article
Year of Publication:1992
Authors:Y. Suzuki
Journal:International Rice Research Newsletter
Volume:17
Pagination:29
Keywords:agriculturalentomology, behaviour, beneficial insects, biology, cereals, fields, green leafhopper, hosts, insect pests, migration, natural enemies, Nephotettix virescens, parasitoids, pests, Pipunculidae, rice
Abstract:

Observations in and around rice fields in Indonesia in 1986-90 indicated that pipunculid parasitism depresses even short-range dispersal of females of the cicadellid Nephotettix virescens and that females which flew long distances were mostly unparasitized and immature.

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