Avoiding male harassment: Wing-closing reactions to flying individuals by female small copper butterflies

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 630-637

  Ide, Jun Ya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BODY SIZE; BUTTERFLY; CONSPECIFIC; COPULATION; COURTSHIP; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; WING;

LYCAENA PHLAEAS DAIMIO; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 79958818118     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01912.x     Document Type: Article

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