Biology of Pyemotes parviscolyti (acarina: pyemotidae)

John Moser; E.A. Cross

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Biology of Pyemotes parviscolyti (acarina: pyemotidae)

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Authors:

John Moser, E.A. Cross

Year:

1971

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

Entomophaga, Vol.16(4): 367-379

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Abstract

Pyemotes parviscolyti Cross & Moser is phoretic only on Pityophthorus bisulcatus Eichhoff; it attacks all stages of this insect except the adult. Females, which contain little or no venom, prey on other scolytids if galleries overlap. Males copulate with females of Pyemotes ventricosus Newport and vice versa, but only males of the mother species result. Copulation with Pyemotes scolyti Oudeman's was not successful.

Citation

Moser, John c.; Cross, E.A. 1971. Biology of Pyemotes parviscolyti (acarina: pyemotidae). Entomophaga, Vol.16(4): 367-379