EVIDENCE FOR MATE CHOICE BY MALE BAGWORMS, OIKETICUS-KIRBYI (GUILDING) (LEPIDOPTERA, PSYCHIDAE)

Authors
RHAINDS M GRIES G RODRIGUEZ R
Citation
M. Rhainds et al., EVIDENCE FOR MATE CHOICE BY MALE BAGWORMS, OIKETICUS-KIRBYI (GUILDING) (LEPIDOPTERA, PSYCHIDAE), Canadian Entomologist, 127(6), 1995, pp. 799-803
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
Canadian Entomologist → ACNP
ISSN journal
0008347X
Volume
127
Issue
6
Year of publication
1995
Pages
799 - 803
Database
ISI
SICI code
0008-347X(1995)127:6<799:EFMCBM>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
In field and cage experiments in a Costa Rican oil palm plantation, th e largest, most fecund female bagworms, Oiketicus kirbyi, had the grea test mating success. Differential mating success of small and large fe males may be attributed to mate choice by males or to competition betw een protogynous females for access to males.