[Does vegetational diversification reduce coffee leaf miner Leucoptera coffeella (Guérin-Mèneville) (Lepidoptera:

Dany S Amaral1, Madelaine Venzon, Angelo Pallini

  • 1Depto de Biologia Animal/Entomologia, Univ Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brasil, 36570-000. danyamaral@ufv.br

Neotropical Entomology
|September 30, 2010
PubMed

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