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PREDATION OF CRYPTORHOPALUM RUFICORNE (COLEOPTERA: DERMESTIDAE) ON EGG MASSES OF THE GYPSY MOTH, LYMANTRIA DISPAR (LEPIDOPTERA: LYMANTRIIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Thomas L. Mason Jr.  and
Mark Ticehurst
Thomas L. Mason Jr.
Affiliation:
West Virginia Department of Agriculture, Inwood, West Virginia 25428
Mark Ticehurst
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, Blain, Pennsylvania 17006
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Invertebrate predation of egg masses of the gypsy moth has been little studied in North America despite its reported impact on populations of this pest in Eurasia and North Africa (Nonveiller 1959; Stefanov and Keremidchiev 1961; Hérard 1979). There, on occasion, this feeding guild has regulated local gypsy moth outbreaks (DeLépiney 1933). The most important predators were dermestids of the genera Anthrenus, Dermestes, Megatoma, and Trogoderma.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 116 , Issue 12 , December 1984 , pp. 1675 - 1677
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1984

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