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RIVERA GARCIA, 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. Acta Zool. Mex [online]. 2004, vol.20, n.1, pp.287-290. ISSN 2448-8445.

This paper summarizes unpublished information and isolated field observation records on the principal predators (9 vertebrates, 10 insect and 2 orb weaver and a terrestrial spider species) and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