Behavioral interactions between non-cohabiting bess beetles, Odontotaenius disjvnctus (Illiger) (Coleoptera: Passalidae)

Coleopterists Bulletin

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 108-116

  Wicknick, Jill A ^a   Miskelly, Sally A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEETLE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE;

COLEOPTERA; ODONTOTAENIUS; ODONTOTAENIUS DISJUNCTUS; PASSALIDAE;

EID: 67649511775     PISSN: 0010065X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-63.1.108     Document Type: Article

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