Generalist cuckoo bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Sphecodes) are species-specialist at the individual level

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 422-429

  Bogusch, Petr ^a   Kratochvíl, Lukáš ^a   Straka, Jakub ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cleptoparasite; Cuckoo bees; Generalist; Sphecodes

Indexed keywords

BEE; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; GENERALIST; HOST QUALITY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE; PARASITE INTENSITY; POLLEN; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES CONCEPT;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

APOIDEA; AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; NOMADINAE; SPHECODES;

EID: 33745281709     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0182-4     Document Type: Article

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