Bimodal life cycle of the burying beetle Nicrophorus quadripunctatus in relation to its summer reproductive diapause

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 220-228

  Nisimura, Tomoyosi ^a   Kon, Masahiro ^b   Numata, Hideharu ^a  

^a Osaka City University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bimodal life cycle; Burying beetle; Nicrophorus quadripunctatus; Photoperiod; Reproductive behaviour; Summer diapause

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DIAPAUSE; LIFE CYCLE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

COLEOPTERA; GALLUS GALLUS; INVERTEBRATA; NICROPHORUS; NICROPHORUS QUADRIPUNCTATUS; SILPHIDAE;

EID: 0036225227     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.2002.00400.x     Document Type: Article

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