The Guarding posture of females in the subsocial bug Elasmucha dorsalis (Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae)

Title:

The Guarding posture of females in the subsocial bug Elasmucha dorsalis (Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae)

Creator:

Kudo, Shin-Ichi

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:dee14688-3512-46a7-8904-3b9c19a72e41
uuid:dee14688-3512-46a7-8904-3b9c19a72e41

Subject:

Heteroptera, Acanthosomatidae, Elasmucha, parental care, guarding posture, and predator-prey interactions

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

The subsocial bug Elasmucha dorsalis lays egg masses on the underside of the leaves of female plants of Aruncus dioicus. Each bug straddles her eggs and shields her offspring with her body, until they moult to the 2nd instar. Females that: attended aggregations of 2nd and later instar nymphs feeding on fruit of inflorescences often settled close to the basal part of or just below the aggregation, and faced towards the base of the inflorescence. The nymphal aggregations often Seemed to be too large for females to guard effectively. The position and orientation of females attending 2nd or later instar nymphs probably enabled them to detect predators walking towards the nymphs.

Language:

English

Rights:

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

Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2000 Volume:97 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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