Use of an active nest of the leaf cutter ant Atta cephalotes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as a breeding site of Lithodytes lineatus (Anura: Leptodactylidae)

Herpetology Notes

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-105

  Schlüter, Andreas ^a   Löttker, Petra ^b   Mebert, Konrad ^c  

^a STAATLICHES MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Atta cephalotes; Formicidae; Life history; Lithodytes lineatus; Madre de d os; Peru; Reproduction; Tambopata

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ATTA; ATTA CEPHALOTES; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPTODACTYLIDAE; LITHODYTES LINEATUS; REDUVIIDAE;

EID: 76849103717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20715773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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