Attraction of female Uranotaenia lowii (Diptera: Culicidae) to frog calls in Costa Rica

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-94

  Borkent, Art ^a,c   Belton, Peter ^a,b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; ENTOMOLOGY; FROG; MOSQUITO; SURVEY;

CANADA; CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; NORTH AMERICA;

ANURA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CORETHRELLIDAE; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; HYLA GRATIOSA; HYLIDAE; NEMATOCERA; URANOTAENIA LOWII;

EID: 33646462355     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/N04-113     Document Type: Article

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