Use of female's legs in tandem-linkage during flight of libellulid dragonflies (anisoptera)

Odonatologica

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 477-482

  Martens, A ^a   Grabow, K ^b   Hilpert, D ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); LIBELLULIDAE; TRAMEA; TRAMEA BASILARIS; ZYGONYX; ZYGONYX NATALENSIS; ODONATA; TRAMEA LACERATA; TRAMEA LIMBATA; TRAMEA TRANSMARINA;

DRAGONFLY; TANDEM FLIGHT;

EID: 0031399007     PISSN: 03750183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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