Who steals the eggs? Coprohanaeus telamon (Erichson) buries decomposing eggs in Western Amazonian rain forest (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

Coleopterists Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-27

  Pfrommer, Albrecht ^a   Krell, Frank Thorsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; EGG; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; RAINFOREST;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 2042461708     PISSN: 0010065X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1649/585     Document Type: Article

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