Red anemone guild flowers as focal places for mating and feeding by Levant glaphyrid beetles

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 808-817

  Keasar, Tamar ^a   Harari, Ally R ^b   Sabatinelli, Guido ^c   Keith, Denis ^d   Dafni, Amots ^a   Shavit, Ofrit ^e   Zylbertal, Asaph ^f   Shmida, Avi ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Museum des Sciences Naturelles et de Prehistoire   (France)

^e Hebrew University ^*

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Beetle pollination; Co evolution; Display size; Glaphyridae; Mate searching; Red

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COEVOLUTION; FLOWER; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HERB; MALE BEHAVIOR; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION;

ISRAEL;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; COLEOPTERA; GLAPHYRIDAE; PAPAVER; PAPAVERACEAE; SCARABAEOIDEA;

EID: 77952790330     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01384.x     Document Type: Article

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