Author ORCID Identifier
Edwin R. Burgess: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8144-0897
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Once a Urolepis rufipes male mounted, the female beat her antennae against his mouth and clypeus. Immediately after he swept his antennae rapidly downward and extruded his mouthparts, her abdomen rose as she opened her genital orifice. Almost simultaneously he backed up for copulation and she folded her antennae against her head. Neither her abdomen rising nor her antennal folding were essential to his backing up as determined from their timing and from experiments in which her abdomen was sealed or her antennae were removed. Females did not open their genital orifice if with a sealed-mouth male; and antennae-removed females did not open even in the few cases where untreated males extruded their mouthparts. Unlike a closely related species, females mounted by sealed-mouth males did not open in response to air from containers of mating pairs.
Publication Date
4-9-2013
Recommended Citation
J Insect Behav (2013) 26:745–761
Original Citation
J Insect Behav (2013) 26:745–761
Department
Department of Biological Sciences
Legacy Department
Department of Biological Sciences
Sponsorship
This article is made openly accessible in part by an award from the Northern Illinois University Libraries' Open Access Publishing Fund.
Language
eng
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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In Copyright
Rights Statement 2
Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
