Comparison of disturbance stridulations in five species of triatominae bugs

Acta Tropica

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 171-178

  Schilman, Pablo E ^a   Lazzari, Claudio R ^b   Manrique, Gabriel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Defensive behaviour; Dipetalogaster maxima; Disturbance; Rhodnius prolixus; Stridulation; Stridulatory groove; T. guasayana; T. sordida; Triatoma infestans

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COPULATION; DISTURBANCE; VIBRATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DIPETALOGASTER MAXIMA; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RHODNIUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRIATOMA GUASAYANA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRIATOMA SORDIDA; TRIATOMINAE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEMALE; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRIATOMINAE;

BRAZIL;

DIPETALOGASTER MAXIMUS; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; TRIATOMA GUASAYANA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRIATOMA SORDIDA; TRIATOMINAE;

EID: 0035947464     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(01)00095-X     Document Type: Article

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