Host specificity revisited: New data on Myrmica host ants of the lycaenid butterfly Maculinea rebeli

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-6

  Steiner, Florian M ^a   Sielezniew, Marcin ^b   Schlick Steiner, Birgit C ^a   Höttinger, Helmut ^a   Stankiewicz, Anna ^c   Górnicki, Adam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Austria; Butterfly ant relationship; Conservation strategies; Poland; Regional differences

Indexed keywords

ANT; BUTTERFLY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HOST SPECIFICITY; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; SOCIAL PARASITISM;

EUROPE;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCAENIDAE; MACULINEA; MYRMICA; MYRMICA SABULETI; MYRMICA SCABRINODIS; MYRMICA SCHENCKI; MYRMICA SULCINODIS; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 0041469724     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024763305517     Document Type: Article

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