Effects of Male Horn Size on Courtship Activity in the Forked Fungus Beetle, Bolitotherus cornutus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
- 15 March 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 76 (2) , 253-255
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/76.2.253
Abstract
Male forked fungus beetles vary greatly in both horn and body sizes. Relative horn size is an important determinant of male access to females among males of equivalent body sizes. Absolute horn size did not affect male courtship vigor, however.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The Natural History of Doryphora sp. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) and the Function of its Sternal HornAnnals of the Entomological Society of America, 1981