Coercive copulation in the Alpine Bushcricket Anonconotus alpinus Yersin (Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniinae: Platycleidini)

Ethology

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1065-1075

  Vahed, Karim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

ANIMALIA; GRYLLIDAE; INSECTA; ORTHOPTERA; TETTIGONIIDAE;

EID: 0036947570     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2002.00838.x     Document Type: Article

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