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NOTES ON MATERNAL CARE IN THE OVOVIVIPAROUS LEAF BEETLE GONIOCTENA JAPONICA (COLEOPTERA: CHRYSOMELIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Shin-ichi Kudo  and
Eiji Ishibashi
Shin-ichi Kudo
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Applied Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060 Japan
Eiji Ishibashi
Affiliation:
Systematic Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060 Japan
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Subsocial behaviour, defined as postovipositional parental behaviour that promotes the survival, growth, and development of offspring, has been reported in diverse orders in insects (Tallamy and Wood 1986). Especially in the order Coleoptera, more that 10 families include subsocial species (Hinton 1981; Brandmayr 1992). For chrysomelid beetles, with the exception of members belonging to the subfamily Cassidinae, such behaviour has been known previously in a few species (Windsor and Choe 1994).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 127 , Issue 2 , April 1995 , pp. 275 - 276
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1995

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