Aggressive Mimicry in Photuris : Firefly Femmes Fatales
- 6 August 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 149 (3684) , 653-654
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.149.3684.653
Abstract
Firefly females of the genus Photuris, long known to be carnivorous, attract and devour males of the genus Photinus by mimicking the flash-responses of Photinus females. Although suspected, this behavior had not been observed previously.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Studies on the Firefly. II. The Signal System and Color Vision in Photinus pyralisPhysiological Zoology, 1937