Mating Activity of Pyrrhocoris Apterus (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae) in Nature

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00027006:_____/19:00005564

Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0297051" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0297051</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14411/eje.2019.020" target="_blank" >10.14411/eje.2019.020</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mating Activity of Pyrrhocoris Apterus (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae) in Nature

Original language description

The mating behaviour of Pyrrhocoris apterus in the laboratory is well studied, but little is known about it under natural conditions. In natural populations in Central Europe, overwintered adults start copulating in March and continue until their death. Caged females, kept under natural conditions in the permanent presence of males, copulated repeatedly. Their mating activity increased sharply until early April, then very slowly until the end of June and then declined as the females die-off. Half of copulations were short (< 5 h) and only 9% were longer than 1 day. By contrast, in natural populations, mating activity (percentage of individuals involved in copula) reached its maximum in April and then decreased until early July, when the overwintered adults die. The decline in mating frequency (percentage of adults involved in copula) was associated with a decrease in the availability of receptive females towards the end of the mating period. For a female, repeated copulation is necessary because sperm is nearly depleted after insemination of 3-5 egg batches.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10103 - Statistics and probability

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Entomology

ISSN

1802-8829

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

116

Issue of the periodical within the volume

June 14

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

187-193

UT code for WoS article

000473414400006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85068389328