Mating opportunities and mating costs are reduced in androchrome female damselflies, Ischnura elegans (Odonata)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 185-197

  Cordero, Adolfo ^a,c   Carbone, Serena Santolamazza ^a,c   Utzeri, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Campus Universitario ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOUR POLYMORPHISM; DAMSELFLY; MATING FREQUENCY;

ITALY; LAZIO;

COENAGRIONIDAE; ISCHNURA ELEGANS; ODONATA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 0031960135     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0603     Document Type: Article

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