Tiger beetle defenses revisted: Alternative defense strategies and colorations of two neotropical tiger beetles, Odontocheila Nicaraguensis bates and Pseudoxycheila tarsalis bates (Carabidae: Cicindelinae)

Coleopterists Bulletin

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 153-163

  Schultz, T D ^a  

^a DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL DEFENSE; COLOR; SECRETION;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; ODONTOCHEILA NICARAGUENSIS; PSEUDOXYCHEILA TARSALIS;

EID: 0034892182     PISSN: 0010065X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X(2001)055[0153:TBDRAD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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