Surface activity of the xylophagous cockroach cryptocercus punctulatus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) based on collections from pitfall traps

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 364-368

  Nalepa, C A ^b   Grayson, K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

mating system; movement patterns; polyandry; Ranging; social monogamy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COCKROACH; MONOGAMY; MOVEMENT; PITFALL TRAP; POLYANDRY; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; SEX RATIO; SPERMATOPHORE; TAXONOMY; TERMITE;

MOUNTAIN LAKE; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

BLATTARIA; CRYPTOCERCIDAE; CRYPTOCERCUS PUNCTULATUS; DICTYOPTERA; ISOPTERA;

EID: 79952431598     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/AN10133     Document Type: Article

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