Epigamic display and unique mating position in Wyeomyia arthrostigma (Diptera: Culicidae)

Journal of Insect Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 739-753

  Keith Philips, T ^a   Hancock, Robert G ^a,b   Foster, Woodbridge A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of the Cumberlands   (United States)

Author keywords

copulation; courtship; mating; mosquito

Indexed keywords

CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; SABETHES; SABETHINI; WYEOMYIA ARTHROSTIGMA; WYEOMYIA SMITHII;

EID: 0030464581     PISSN: 08927553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02213554     Document Type: Article

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