Effects of larval starvation on adult life-history traits in the butterfly species Lycaena tityrus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 249-254

  Fischer, K ^a   Fiedler, K ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Food quantity; Life history; Lycaena tityrus (Poda 1761); Protandry; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENA TITYRUS; LYCAENIDAE;

EID: 0034778722     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/25/2001/249     Document Type: Article

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