The Nest and Brood Ball of Canthon (Canthon) Virens aff. paraguayanus Balthasar (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
Behavioral traits, such as nest and brood ball structure, remain poorly studied among the species of the genus Canthon Hoffmannsegg. Within the Canthon virens species-group (Halffter and Martínez 1977), Canthon (Canthon) virens virens (Mannerheim) makes brood balls provisioned with queens of leaf-cu...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/29765 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/29765 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Canthon Paraguayanus Scarabaeinae Nests Brood Balls https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 |
| Sumario: | Behavioral traits, such as nest and brood ball structure, remain poorly studied among the species of the genus Canthon Hoffmannsegg. Within the Canthon virens species-group (Halffter and Martínez 1977), Canthon (Canthon) virens virens (Mannerheim) makes brood balls provisioned with queens of leaf-cutter ants, crickets, and cockroaches and buries them at a shallow depth (Forti et al. 2012; Halffter et al. 2013). The nesting behavior of the remaining species of this group is completely unknown. |
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