Male harassment and female energetics in the territorial damselfly hetaerina Americana (fabricius) (zygoptera: Calopterygidae)

Odonatologica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-15

  Cordoba Aguilar A ^a   Gonzalez Tokman D M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; DAMSELFLY; EMERGENCE; FEEDING; MATING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; TERRITORIALITY;

CALOPTERYGIDAE; HETAERINA AMERICANA; ZYGOPTERA;

EID: 79953127108     PISSN: 03750183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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