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First evidence of predation of the ant species Lasius alienus on the poultry red mite Dermanyssus gallinae

  • 1. Department of Biology, Tekirdag Namik Kemal University, Tekirdag, Turkey.
  • 2. Galveston National Laboratory, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA.
  • 3. Department of Biology, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey.

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Kar, Sirri, Akyildiz, Gurkan, Sirin, Deniz, Rodriguez, Sergio E., Camlitepe, Yilmaz (2021): First evidence of predation of the ant species Lasius alienus on the poultry red mite Dermanyssus gallinae. Acarologia 61 (1): 115-120, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20214420, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20214420

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