Copulation duration in nonterritorial odonate species lasts longer than in territorial species

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 694-701

  Cordoba Aguilar, A ^a   Serrano Meneses, M A ^a   Cordero Rivera, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Copulation duration; Mating system; Odonata

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DRAGONFLY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; TERRITORIALITY; TESTING METHOD;

ANISOPTERA (DRAGONFLIES); HEXAPODA; ODONATA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 68149108551     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/008.102.0414     Document Type: Article

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