SEXUAL DIMORPHISM OF DORSAL ABOMINAL GLANDS IN BIPROPRORULUS BIBAX BREDDIN (HEMIPTERA: PENTATOMIDAE)

Open Access

1 February 1989

journal article
Published by Wiley in Australian Journal of Entomology

Vol. 28 (1) , 75-76
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1989.tb01198.x

Abstract

The first record of sexual dimorphism of the dorsal abdominal glands of reproductive male bugs may be responsible for secretion of a pheromone attractive to conspecifics.

Keywords

ABOMINAL
DIMORPHISM
GLANDS
DORSAL
REPRODUCTIVE
CONSPECIFICS
HEMIPTERA
PENTATOMIDAE
PHEROMONE
MALE

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