Dietary items of predacious aquatic bugs (Nepoidea: Heteroptera) in Japanese wetlands

Limnology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-43

  Ohba, Shin Ya ^a   Nakasuji, Fusao ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aquaticinsect; Belostomatidae; Nepidae; Nepoidea; Predator

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT; PREDATOR; WETLAND;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

ANURA; ARTHROPODA; BASOMMATOPHORA; BELOSTOMATIDAE; GASTROPODA; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LACCOTREPHES; LETHOCERUS; NEPIDAE; NEPOIDEA; NEPOMORPHA;

EID: 33747201287     PISSN: 14398621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10201-006-0161-5     Document Type: Article

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