What is going on between aposematic carabid beetles? The case of anchomenus dorsalis (Pontoppidan 1763) and brachinus sclopeta (Fabricius 1792) (Coleoptera Carabidae)

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 335-348

  Zetto Brandmayr, T ^a   Bonacci, T ^a   Massolo, A ^b,c   Brandmayr, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Europe bei Arizona Chemical Niederlande European Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchomenus dorsalis; Brachinus sclopeta; Gregariousness; Rubbing behaviour

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; APOSEMATISM; BEETLE; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY;

BRACHINUS; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 33846272791     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2006.9522700     Document Type: Article

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