Lifetime mating opportunities and male mating behaviour in sexually cannibalistic praying mantids

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1011-1028

  Maxwell, Michael R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALE BEHAVIOUR; MATING BEHAVIOUR; SEXUAL CANNABALISM;

DICTYOPTERA; IRIS ORATORIA; MANTIDAE; MANTODEA; STAGMOMANTIS LIMBATA;

EID: 0032052782     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0671     Document Type: Article

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