Odour profile congruity in two closely related desert tenebrionid beetles: Homology as the basis for a cleptoparasitic relationship?

Chemoecology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 156-161

  Hein, Eleonore ^a   Rasa, O Anne E ^a   Ockenfels, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cleptoparasitism; Coleoptera; Defensive secretions; Eremostibes opacus; Homology; Kalahari desert; Mimetism; Odour congruity; Parastizopus armaticeps; Subsociality; Tenebrionidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003078732     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01245969     Document Type: Article

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