Mating expenditures reduced via female sex pheromone modulation in the primitively eusocial halictine bee, Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) malachurum (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-106

  Ayasse, Manfred ^a   Engels, Wolf ^b   Lübke, Gunter ^c   Taghizadeh, Timo ^c   Francke, Wittko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical analyses; Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) malachurum; Mating behavior; Sex pheromone modulation; Sweat bee

Indexed keywords

MATING BEHAVIOR; PHEROMONE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

LASIOGLOSSUM MALACHURUM;

EID: 0033030648     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050543     Document Type: Article

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