Adaptive change in protective coloration in adult striated shieldbugs Graphosoma lineatum (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae): Test of detectability of two colour forms by avian predators

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 602-610

  Johansen, Aleksandra I ^a   Exnerová, Alice ^b   Hotová Svádová, Kateřina ^c   Štys, Pavel ^b   Gamberale Stille, Gabriella ^a   Tullberg, Birgitta S ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HRADEC KRALOVE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Antipredatory defence; Aposematism; Background matching; Crypsis; Great tit; Ontogenetic colour change; Parus major; Warning coloration

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; APOSEMATISM; COLOR; CRYPSIS; INSECT; ONTOGENY; PASSERINE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

SWEDEN;

AVES; GRAPHOSOMA LINEATUM; HELIANTHUS; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; PARUS MAJOR; PENTATOMIDAE;

EID: 77956417658     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2010.01219.x     Document Type: Article

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