Adoption of parasitic Maculinea alcon caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) by three Myrmica ant species

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 99-106

  Als, Thomas Damm ^a   Nash, David R ^a,b   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION BEHAVIOR; HOST RANGE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION;

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

EID: 0034898554     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1716     Document Type: Article

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