The rhinoceros beetle Cyphonistes tuberculifrons Quedenfeldt 1884 attracted by quinones (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae Dynastinae): Primary olfactory attraction of a saprophagous beetle by its source of food?

Tropical Zoology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 297-307

  Krell, F T ^a   Schmitt, T ^b   Linsenmair, K E ^b  

^a ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical ecology; Cyphonistes; C te d Ivoire; Dynastinae; Frugivory; Primary attraction; Quinone; Saprophagy; Scarabaeidae; Xylosaprophagy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033261387     PISSN: 03946975     EISSN: 19709528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03946975.1999.10539396     Document Type: Article

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