Seasonal Activity and Reproduction in the Spring Breeding Groundbeetle Species Agonum dorsale and Brachinus explodens in Hungary (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 259-269

  Fazekas, Judit P ^a   Kàdâr, Ferenc ^a   Sârospataki, Mklös ^a   Lövei, Gabor L ^a  

^a Forskningscenter Flakkebjerg   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agonum dorsale (pontoppidan 1763); Brachinus explodens duftschmid 1812; Life history; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038530334     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/23/1999/259     Document Type: Article

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