Surgical examination of male genital function of calopterygid damselflies (Odonata)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1417-1425

  Tsuchiya, Kaori ^a   Hayashi, Fumio ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calopterygidae; Genitalia; Odonata; Sperm displacement; Spermatheca

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPULATION; DAMSELFLY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MALE; MATING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SPERM;

CALOPTERYGIDAE; CALOPTERYX CORNELIA; MNAIS PRUINOSA; ODONATA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 44949245823     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0571-y     Document Type: Article

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