The use of leaf-cutter ants, Atta laevigata (Smith) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), as a substrate for oviposition by the dung beetle Canthon virens Mannerheim (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in central Brazil

Coleopterists Bulletin

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 105-108

  Hertel, Fritz ^a   Colli, Guarino R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUNG BEETLE; LEAF-CUTTER ANT; OVIPOSITION;

BRAZIL;

ATTA LAEVIGATA; CANTHON VIRENS; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 0031688888     PISSN: 0010065X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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