Sound production by abdominal tymbal organs in two moth species: The green silver-line and the scarce silver-line (Noctuoidea: Nolidae: Chloephorinae)

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 2937-2949

  Skals, Niels ^a   Surlykke, Annemarie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Bena bicolorana; Chloephorinae; Hearing threshold; Moth; Noctuoidea; Pseudoips prasinana; Sound production; Tymbal; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032743453     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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