The visually controlled prey-capture behaviour of the European mantispid Mantispa styriaca

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 203, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 2117-2123

  Kral, Karl ^a   Vernik, Martin ^b   Devetak, Dušan ^b  

^a Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Binocular mechanism; Compound eye; Mantispa styriaca; Mantispid; Prey capture; Superposition eyebinocular vision; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; MALE; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MANTIS RELIGIOSA; MANTISPA STYRIACA; MANTISPIDAE;

EID: 0033859433     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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