Seasonal activity and reproductive biology of the ground beetle Carabus dufouri (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Title:

Seasonal activity and reproductive biology of the ground beetle Carabus dufouri (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Creator:

Cardenas, Ana M. and Hidalgo, Juan M.

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:205fa0a1-be83-45ae-aacc-4fbd3e1d341d
uuid:205fa0a1-be83-45ae-aacc-4fbd3e1d341d

Subject:

Carabidae, ground beetle, Carabus dufouri, activity, reproductive biology, and Iberian Peninsula

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

This paper concerns the life-cycle of Carabus dufouri Dejean 1829, one of the most representative species of Carabus in the south of the Iberian Peninsula. The study is based on data of the annual activity patterns in the natural habitat, on anatomical observations related to the sex and age of the specimens, on the reproductive condition of females and, finally, on the results of laboratory rearing experiments carried out to study the oviposition patterns and the course of development of immature stages. The results indicate that C. dufouri shows the annual rhythm of autumn breeders. However, the rhythm may also be related to the winter-breeder type of North Africa.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2000 Volume:97 | Number:3

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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