Life cycle and behaviour of the aquatic firefly Luciola leii (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) from Mainland China

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 860-870

  Fu, Xinhua ^a   Nobuyoshi, Ohba ^b   Vend, Fredric V ^c,d   Lei, Chaoliang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OHBA Firefly Institute   (Japan)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; AQUATIC ORGANISM; BEETLE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COURTSHIP; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; LIFE CYCLE; SNAIL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI;

ARANEAE; BASOMMATOPHORA; BELLAMYA; COLEOPTERA; GASTROPODA; GYRAULUS CONVEXIUSCULUS; LAMPYRIDAE; LUCIOLA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; LYMNAEIDAE; MESOGASTROPODA; PLANORBIDAE; RADIX AURICULARIA; TETRAGNATHA PRAEDONIA; TETRAGNATHIDAE; VIVIPARIDAE;

EID: 33846704750     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/n05-093     Document Type: Article

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