A new type of scent organ in lepidoptera: A giant thoracic pheromone-disseminating structure in a male incurvarioid moth (Lepidoptera, Adelidae).

Journal of Natural History

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 819-824

  Wojtusiak, J ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adelidae; Incurvarioidea; Lepidoptera; Male; Mating systems; Organ; Pheromone; Scent; Thorax

Indexed keywords

ADELIDAE; GLOSSATA; INCURVARIOIDEA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEOLEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0033043330     PISSN: 00222933     EISSN: 14645262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/002229399300137     Document Type: Article

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