New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts
Larval morphology of the capitulum weevil, Larinus latus (Herbst)
(Coleoptera, Curculionidae)
Olga N. Nikulina
A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia
Levent Gültekin
Saban Güçlü*
Atatürk Üniversitesi
Ziraat Fakültesi
Bitki Koruma Bölümü
25240, Erzurum, Turkey
email: sguclu@atauni.edu.tr
*Author for correspondence.
Abstract The mature larva of Larinus latus (Herbst)
(Coleoptera, Curculionidae), a potential biological control agent for Onopordum
spp. thistles introduced into Australia in 1992 for that purpose, is described
and its taxonomically relevant features are illustrated.
Keywords thistles; Onopordum bracteatum; capitulum
weevil; Larinus latus; larval morphology
Z03009; Online publication date 4 March 2004; Received 5 May 2003; accepted
25 June 2003
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2004, Vol. 31: 23-26
0301-4223/04/3101-0023 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2004
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