Records of predators and parasites (vertebrates and invertebrates) of creosote bush grasshopper Bootettix argentatus Bruner, 1889, (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Gomphocerinae) from the Bolsón de Mapimí, Dgo. (Chihuahuan desert), Mexico
This paper summarizes unpublished information and isolated field observation records on the principal predators (9 vertebrates, 10 insect and 2 orb weaver and a terrestrial spider species) and parasites (an insect and one mite species) of B. argentatus a non economic, highly specialized monophagous grasshopper species of creosote bushes Larrea tridentata in Mapimi Biosphere Reserve, a southern region of the Chihuahuan Desert.
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| Language: | English |
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Instituto de Ecología A.C.
2004
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0065-17372004000100020 |
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