Co-operative group predation in a sit-and-wait cheyletid mite

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 643-651

  Mori, Hans ^a   Saito, Yutaka ^a   Tho, Yow Pong ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Behavioural ecology; Cheyletidae; Co operation; Sit and wait predator; Subsociality; Thelytoky

Indexed keywords

KIN SELECTION; LIFE HISTORY; MITE; PREDATION;

ACARI; HEMICHEYLETIA MORII;

EID: 0032870082     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006255421751     Document Type: Article

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