Cycloalexy: A new concept in the larval defense of insects

  • Anyone who has ever seen a Western will be familiar with the defensive tactics employed by the pioneers: The wagon train is formed into a ring, women and children on the inside, with the men firing out at the circling Indians. The larvae of some Coleoptera and Hymenoptera have long employed similar tactics, in defense against their predators (ants, bugs) and parasitoids (wasps, flies).

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Author:Pierre Jolivet, Joao Vasconcellos-Neto, Philip Weinstein
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157720
Parent Title (English):Insecta mundi : a journal of world insect systematics
Publisher:Center for Systematic Entomology
Place of publication:Gainesville, Fla.
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2010/07/13
Year of first Publication:1990
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/07/13
Volume:04
Issue:1-4
Page Number:10
First Page:133
Last Page:142
Source:Gainesville : Insecta Mundi 04:1-4, S. 133-142
HeBIS-PPN:22913484X
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 59 Tiere (Zoologie) / 590 Tiere (Zoologie)
Sammlungen:Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte:Insecta Mundi / Insecta Mundi, Volume 4 (1990)
:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-333011
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht