Larval niche selection and evening exposure enhance adoption of a predacious social parasite, Maculinea arion (large blue butterfly), by Myrmica ants

Oecologia

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 531-537

  Thomas, J A ^a  

^a Winfrith Technology Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Foraging niche; Host specificity; Myrmecophily

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOST SPECIFICITY; MYRMECOPHILY; SOCIAL PARASITISM;

ARION; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE; MACULINEA; MACULINEA ARION; MYRMICA; MYRMICA SABULETI; MYRMICA SCABRINODIS;

EID: 0036928034     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1002-9     Document Type: Article

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