Cuticular lipids as semiochemicals in paper wasps and other social insects

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 43, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 500-514

  Dani, Francesca Romana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; CUTICLE; HYDROCARBON; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIPID; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; SEMIOCHEMICAL; SOCIAL INSECT; WASP;

HEXAPODA; POLISTES; POLISTINAE;

EID: 33846853298     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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