Ecological, behavioural and chemical adaptations to ant predation in species of Thermophilum and Graphipterus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the Sahara desert

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 267-286

  Dinter, Karin ^a   Paarmann, Wilfried ^a   Peschke, Klaus ^b   Arndt, Erik ^c  

^a FHS Hildesheim/Holzminden ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c ANHALT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Carabidae; Chemical mimicry; Cuticular hydrocarbons; Formicidae; Larval development; Sahara Desert

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANT; BEETLE; LARVA; MIMICRY; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

AFRICA; SAHARA DESERT;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; GRAPHIPTERUS; GRAPHIPTERUS SERRATOR; THERMOPHILUM; THERMOPHILUM SEXMACULATUM; THERMOPHILUM VENATOR;

EID: 0036464254     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jare.2001.0850     Document Type: Article

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