Courtship role reversal and deceptive signals in the long-tailed dance fly, Rhamphomyia longicauda

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 411-421

  Funk, David H ^a   Tallamy, Douglas W ^b  

^a STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FLY; HONEST SIGNALING; LEK; NUPTIAL GIFT; SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; EMPIDIDAE; RHAMPHOMYIA LONGICAUDA; RHAMPHOMYIA SOCIABILIS;

EID: 0033845271     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1310     Document Type: Article

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