Reproductive Biology of the Yellow-Spotted Longicorn Beetle, Psacothea hilaris (Pascoe) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) IV. Effects of Shape and Size of Female Models on Male Mating Behaviors

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-58

  Fukaya, Midori ^a,b   Honda, Hiroshi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body size; Cerambycid; Configurational factor; Mating behavior; Psacothea hilaris

Indexed keywords

PSACOTHEA HILARIS;

EID: 0030055252     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.31.51     Document Type: Article

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