Effects of male body size on mating behavior and female mate refusal in the white-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca (Thomson) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 731-737

  Fukaya, Midori ^a   Yasuda, Tetsuya ^a   Akino, Toshiharu ^a   Yasui, Hiroe ^a   Wakamura, Sadao ^a   Fukuda, Takeshi ^b   Ogawa, Yasuhiro ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Kagoshima Pref Agric Exp Station   (Japan)

^c Nagasaki Agric Forest Exp Stn   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anoplophora malasiaca; Male body size; Mating behavior; Olfactory cue; Sex pheromone

Indexed keywords

ANOPLOPHORA MALASIACA; CERAMBYCIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 13444312076     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2004.731     Document Type: Article

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