SEXUAL SELECTION, GUARDING AND SEXUAL CONFLICT IN A SPECIES OF COCCINELLIDAE (COLEOPTERA)

Open Access

1 May 1980

journal article
Published by Wiley in Australian Journal of Entomology

Vol. 19 (1) , 26
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1980.tb00956.x

Abstract

Aggressive and territorial behaviour in adult males of Leptothea galbula (Mulsant), including guarding of female pupae, are recorded for the first time in Coccinellidae.

Keywords

ADULT
CONFLICT
GUARDING
SEXUAL
PUPAE
MULSANT
GALBULA
LEPTOTHEA
COLEOPTERA
TERRITORIAL

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