Convergent song preferences between female field crickets and acoustically orienting parasitoid flies

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 279-285

  Wagner Jr , William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Female choice; filed crickets; Gryllus lineaticeps; Ormia; parasitoid; predation; sexual selection; tachinid flies

Indexed keywords

FIELD CRICKET; SONG PREFERENCE;

DIPTERA; GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLUS LINEATICEPS; ORMIA OCHRACEA; ORTHOPTERA; TACHINIDAE;

EID: 0029662754     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/7.3.279     Document Type: Article

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