Significance of prolonged copulation under the restriction of daily reproductive time in the stink bug Megacopta punctatissima (heteroptera: plataspidae)

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 750-754

  Hosokawa, Takahiro ^a,b   Suzuki, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Daily reproductive activity; Mate guarding; Megacopta punctatissima; Prolonged copulation; Sperm transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344586761     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0750:SOPCUT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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