Tarsal taste sensilla of the autumn gum moth, Mnesampela privata: Morphology and electrophysiological activity

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 186-192

  Calas, Delphine ^a   Marion Poll, Frédéric ^a   Steinbauer, Martin J ^b  

^a INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contact chemoreception; Epicuticular wax; Eucalyptus; Geometridae; Lepidoptera; Myrtaceae; Primary metabolites; Tarsal spines; Viminales

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID; BUTTERFLY; CHEMORECEPTION; CUTICLE; EVERGREEN TREE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOST PLANT; LEAF; METABOLITE; MORPHOLOGY; MOTH; NATIVE SPECIES; OVIPOSITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SALT; SUGAR; WAX;

ENNOMINAE; EUCALYPTUS; GEOMETRIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; MNESAMPELA PRIVATA; MYRTACEAE;

EID: 70349972947     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00921.x     Document Type: Article

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