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

Rivera García, Eduardo

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

2004

Rivera García, Eduardo(Instituto de Ecología, A.C)

This paper summarizes unpublished information and isolated field observation records on the principal predators (9 vertebrates, 10 insect and 2 orb weaver and a terrestrial spider species) and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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