The predatory and reproductive behaviour of Vestula lineaticeps (Sign.) (Hem., Reduviidae)
- 1 October 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Bulletin of Entomological Research
- Vol. 61 (1) , 119-124
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007485300057503
Abstract
Observations on the sexual behaviour, oviposition and responses to insect prey of the predatory Reduviid Vestula lineaticeps (Sign.) were made in the laboratory. Experiments with cardboard models indicated the importance of moving visual stimuli in eliciting predatory responses, but provided no evidence that olfactory stimuli play any such role. The responses of adult females towards other adults were apparently purely predatory. Males did not visibly discriminate between living females and other specimens (dead females, living or dead males) until they had seized them, when they displayed sexual responses with the living females and usually purely predatory behaviour with the remainder.Keywords
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