NOTES ON MATING-BEHAVIOR OF RHIPIPHORUS-LUTEIPENNIS (COLEOPTERA, RHIPIPHORIDAE)

Authors
WHEELER AG
Citation
Ag. Wheeler, NOTES ON MATING-BEHAVIOR OF RHIPIPHORUS-LUTEIPENNIS (COLEOPTERA, RHIPIPHORIDAE), Entomological news, 108(1), 1997, pp. 29-33
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
Entomological news → ACNP
ISSN journal
0013872X
Volume
108
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
29 - 33
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-872X(1997)108:1<29:NOMOR(>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
The generally ephemeral adults of rhipiphorid beetles (subfamily Rhipi phorinae) offer few chances to observe their courtship and mating beha vior. A large population of Rhipiphorus luteipennis in a sand plain in Oneida County, New York, during mid-August 1992 provided an opportuni ty to observe several aspects of its sexual behavior, including precop ulatory swarming by males.