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1986
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Parasitoid communities: their size, structure and development
In this chapter the authors first consider the literature on host-parasitoid associations and its limitations. They then review ideas that have been applied to the study of parasitoid communities. The authors develop a system of categorizing parasitoids, based on a fundamental dichotomy in their biology, which allows them to make...Askew, R R ; Shaw, Mark R
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1990
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Influences of host feeding-niche and foodplant type on generalist and specialist parasitoids
Parasitoids of 185 British herbivorous insect species were classified as being koinobionts (tending to be specialists) or idiobionts (potential generalists) to examine the influences of host feeding-niche and food plant type on the numbers of parasitoid species attacking individual host species. The majority of parasitoid species of exophytic (internally feeding)...Hawkins, B A ; Askew, R R ; Shaw, Mark R
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1992
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Relations among assemblage size, host specialization and climatic variability in North American parasitoid communities
We classified the parasitoids attacking 628 species of North American herbivorous insects as idiobionts (those that permanently disable their host during attack) or koinobionts (those that permit continued host development following parasitization). Using these physiological attributes of parasitoids as estimators of host range, we tested three hypotheses that might explain...Hawkins, B A ; Shaw, Mark R ; Askew, R R
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1997
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1999
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Reproductive variability in Pediobius alcaeus (Walker) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), a parasitoid of Phyllonorycter (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae)
Separate, but sympatric, sexual and asexual populations of Pediobius alcaceus ( Walker) (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), a parasitoid of leaf-mining Phyllonoryter species (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), are shown to exist and to be associated with hosts on a different tree species in BritainShaw, Mark R ; Askew, R R
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2001
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Brachymeria tibialis (Walker, 1834) (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae), a parasitoid of Zygaena Fabricius, 1777, and other Lepidoptera
The primary parasitoids of Zygaena spp. exhibit extreme specialisation to Zygaenidae. However, B. tibialis is a parasitoid of Zygaena, but has a broad lepidopteran host range. The morphology of B. tibialis specimens reared from Zygaena was compared with that of specimens from other host Lepidoptera (Lymantria dispar, Ocnerogyia amanda, Euproctis...Askew, R R ; Shaw, Mark R