Male Mating Behavior in Relation to Spermatophore Transfer in the White Cabbage Butterfly

Researches on Population Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 225-230

  Kandori, Ikuo ^a   Ohsaki, Naota ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mating records; Multiple mating; Pieris rapae; Prolonged copulation

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS RAPAE;

EID: 0004869064     PISSN: 00345466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02515731     Document Type: Article

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