Factors influencing maternal behaviour in a burrower bug, Sehirus cinctus (Heteroptera: Cydnidae)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 105-112

  Kight, Scott L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEHIRUS CINCTUS; CYDNIDAE; HETEROPTERA;

BURROWER BUG; MATERNAL BEHAVIOUR;

EID: 0030620673     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0282     Document Type: Article

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