Copulatory behavior and post-copulatory mate guarding in a grasshopper Atractornorpha lata Motschulsky (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) under laboratory conditions

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 233-241

  Muse, Wasiu Adesola ^a,b   Ono, Tomohiro ^b  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^b KINJO GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atractomorpha lata; Copulation; Mounting without genital contact; Operational sex ratio; Post copulatory mate guarding

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040155619     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.31.233     Document Type: Article

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