Competitive Habitat Utilization in the Damselfly, Mnais nawai (Zygoptera: Calopterygidae) Coexisting with a Related Species, Mnais pruinosa

Researches on Population Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-50

  Nomakuchi, Shintaro ^a   Higashi, Kazunori ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interspecific competition; Male polymorphism; Mating strategy; Mnais; Territory

Indexed keywords

CALOPTERYGIDAE; MNAIS; MNAIS NAWAI; MNAIS PRUINOSA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 0005222812     PISSN: 00345466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02514969     Document Type: Article

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