Beetles feeding on bugs (Coleoptera, Hemiptera): Repeated shifts from mycophagous ancestors

Invertebrate Taxonomy

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 917-929

  Leschen, R A B ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DIETARY SHIFT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PREY SELECTION;

EID: 0033665275     PISSN: 08180164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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