Survival of immersion and anoxia by larval tiger beetles, Cicindela togata

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-33

  Hoback, W Wyatt ^a   Stanley, David W ^a   Higley, Leon G ^a   Barnhart, M Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; BEETLE; FLOODING; LARVAE; SURVIVAL;

CICINDELA TOGATA; CICINDELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; TENEBRIO MOLITOR; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 0031878909     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(1998)140[0027:SOIAAB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. 2 measurements in the environment of submerged soil microarthropods. Acta Oecologia, 15:781-789.
2. BRAND, T. VON. 1943. The resistence of the trophozoites of mealworm gregarines to anaerobic conditions. Biodynamica, 4:163-165.
3. _. 1946. Anaerobiosis in invertebrates. In: B. J. Luyet (ed.). Biodynamica, 4. Normandy, Missouri.
4. CONRADI-LARSEN E. AND L. SOMME. 1973. Anaerobiosis in the overwintering beetle Pelophila borealis. Nature, 245:388-390.
5. GRIDDLE, N. 1910. Habits of some Manitoba "tiger beetles" (Cicindela). Can. Entomol., 42:9-15.
6. GÄDE, G. 1984. Anaerobic energy metabolism, p. 119-136. In: K. H. Hoffmann (ed.). Environmental physiology and biochemistry of insects. Springer, Berlin.
7. HAMILTON, J. 1885. Hibernation of Coleoptera. Can. Entomol., 17:35-38.
8. HARNISCH, O. 1941. Untersuchungen über erholungstatmung und anaeroben stoffwechsel der larvae von Tenebrio molitor. Z. vergleich. Physiol., 28:428-456.
9. HINTON, H. E. 1976. Respiratory adaptations of marine insects, p. 43-78. In: L. Cheng (ed.). Marine insects. North-Holland Publishing Company, New York.
10. HOCHACHKA, P. W. 1980. Living without oxygen. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 181 p.
11. KNISLEY, C. B. 1987. Habitats, food resources, and natural enemies of a community of larval tiger Cicindela in southeastern Arizona (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Can. J. Zool., 65:1191-1200.
12. _ AND D. L. PEARSON. 1981. The function of turret building behavior in the larval tiger beetle, Cicindela willistoni (Coleoptera: Gicindelidae). Ecol. Entomol., 6:401-410.
13. KOMAREK, J. 1936. Sur le probleme de la myase intestinale. Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., 3:23-30.
14. MAITLAND, D. P. AND A. MAITLAND. 1994. Significance of burrow-opening diameter as a flood-prevention mechanism for air-filled burrows of small intertidal arthropods. Mar. Biol., 119: 221-225.
15. MURY-MEYERS, E. J. 1983. An analysis of survivorship and foraging methods in the larvae of three sympatric species of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Ph.D. Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, State College. 212 p.
16. PAARMANN W., U. IRMLER AND J. ADIS. 1982. Pentacomia egregia Chaud. (Carabidae, Cicindelinae), a univoltine species in the Amazon inundation forest. Coleop. Bull., 36:183-188.
17. PEARSON, D. L. 1988. Biology of tiger beetles. Annu. Res. Entomol., 33:123-147.
18. SHELFORD, V. E. 1908. Life-histories and larval habitats of the tiger beetles (Cicindelidae). Linn. Soc. London, 30:157-184.
19. WILLIS, H. L. 1967. Bionomics and zoogeography of tiger beetles of saline habitats in the central United States (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Univ. Kans. Sci. Bull., 47:145-313.
20. _. 1972. Tiger hunting in Kansas. Kans. State Nat., 19:1-16.
21. WILSON, D. A. 1974. Survival of cicindelid larvae after flooding. Cicindela, 6:79-82.
22. WYATT, T. D. 1986. How a subsocial intertidal beetle, Bledius spectabilis prevents flooding and anoxia in its burrow. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 19:323-331.