Vibratory signals of the harlequin bug and their transmission through plants

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 372-380

  Čokl, Andrej ^a   Prešern, Janez ^a   Virant Doberlet, Meta ^a   Bagwell, Glen J ^b   Millar, Jocelyn G ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cabbage; Directionality and species specificity of signals; Harlequin bug; Mating behaviour; Murgantia histrionica; Substrate borne vibrational signal

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; MATING BEHAVIOR; SIGNALING; SONG;

ANIMALIA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA; HETEROPTERA; MURGANTIA; PENTATOMIDAE;

EID: 4444228647     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6962.2004.00395.x     Document Type: Article

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