Does the presence of ant nests matter for oviposition to a specialized myrmecophilous Maculinea butterfly?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1446, 2000, Pages 861-866

  Van Dyck, Hans ^a   Oostermeijer, J Gerard B ^b   Talloen, Willem ^c   Feenstra, Vivian ^b   Van Der Hidde, Anne ^b   Wynhoff, Irma ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d DUTCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ants; Butterflies; Maculinea alcon; Mymecophily; Oviposition

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; HOST SELECTION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MYRMECOPHILY; OVIPOSITION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; EGG LAYING; FLIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE; MACULINEA ALCON; MYRMICA RUGINODIS;

EID: 0034616514     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1082     Document Type: Article

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