PARASITISM OF STYLOPS (STREPSIPTERA, STYLOPIDAE) IN POLYLECTIC AND OLIGOLECTIC ANDRENA HOSTS (HYMENOPTERA, APOIDEA)

Authors
PEKKARINEN A
Citation
A. Pekkarinen, PARASITISM OF STYLOPS (STREPSIPTERA, STYLOPIDAE) IN POLYLECTIC AND OLIGOLECTIC ANDRENA HOSTS (HYMENOPTERA, APOIDEA), Entomologica Fennica, 8(2), 1997, pp. 109-111
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
Entomologica Fennica → ACNP
ISSN journal
07858760
Volume
8
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
109 - 111
Database
ISI
SICI code
0785-8760(1997)8:2<109:POS(SI>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
The taxonomic status of many Stylops species described often on the ba sis of poor female characters is problematic and host specifity of the se dubious species is largely unsettled. In Germany and Finland, oligo lectic Andrena species were not observed to be parasitized more freque ntly by Stylops than polylectic ones. The result does not support seve ral coexisting Stylops species with strict host specifity.