Male bushcrickets favoured by parasitoid flies when acoustically more attractive for conspecific females (Orthoptera: Phanopteridae/Diptera: Tachinidae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 135-140

  Lehmann, G U C ^a   Heller, K G ^a   Lehmann, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Female choice; Host parasitoid relationship; Poecilimon thessalicus Brunner von Wattenwyl 1891; Sexual selection; Therobia leonidei (Mesnil 1965)

Indexed keywords

POECILIMON THESSALICUS; THEROBIA LEONIDEI;

EID: 0035047966     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/25/2001/135     Document Type: Article

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