TY  - GEN
A1  - Rifkind, Jacques
T1  - Enoclerus Gahan : predators of chemically protected ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae and Coccinellidae)
T2  - Insecta mundi : a journal of world insect systematics
N2  - Four species of the genus Enoclerus (Coleoptera: Cleridae) are reported to prey on chemically protected Coccinellidae in North America. The possibility that aposematically colored Enoclerus also mimic prey ladybird species is discussed, and the further possibility that clerid predators acquire chemical protection through sequestration of ladybird prey’s toxic alkaloids is suggested as an important avenue of investigation. The data presented are primarily based on photographs taken by non-specialists, discovered through Internet search. The crowdsourcing of natural history observations can reveal aspects of animal behavior heretofore unreported and even unsuspected.
T3  - Insecta Mundi - 514 
KW  - Clerid predation
KW  - clerid mimicry
KW  - Batesian mimicry
KW  - Müllerian mimicry
KW  - acquired distastefulness
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/42351
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-423513
SN  - 1942-1354
SP  - 1
EP  - 5
PB  - Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -