Social behavior of larvae of the neotropical processionary weevil Phelypera distigma (Boheman) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Hyperinae)

Ethology

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 515-530

  Costa, James T ^a   Fitzgerald, Terrence D ^b   Pescador Rubio, Alfonso ^c   Mays, Jonathan ^a   Janzen, Daniel H ^d  

^a WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Ctro Univ Invest y Desarrollo A   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; LARVA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRAIL PHEROMONE;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DISTIGMA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHACELIA CONGESTA; SYMPHYTA;

EID: 3242800632     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2004.00999.x     Document Type: Article

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