Tabanidae (Dipt) de France - III
Tabanides (Dipt) de France. II. Récoltes du département de l'Hérault
Redescription et genitalia mâles de Euthycera flavostriata (Villeneuve, 1911). (Diptera : Sciomyzidae)
Euthycera flavostriata (Villeneuve 1911), Diptère Sciomyzide originaire du Moyen Orient est redécrit. La diagnose de l'espèce est précisée et la structure des pièces génitales mâles est donnée pour la première fois.
Temporary and permanent ponds : An assessment of the effects of drying out on the conservation value of aquatic macroinv...
Peer reviewed
Temporary and permanent ponds : An assessment of the effects of drying out on the conservation value of aquatic macroinv...
Peer reviewed
Temporary and permanent ponds : An assessment of the effects of drying out on the conservation value of aquatic macroinv...
Peer reviewed
Temporary and permanent ponds : An assessment of the effects of drying out on the conservation value of aquatic macroinv...
Peer reviewed
Time and energy constraints and the evolution of sexual size dimorphism - to eat or to mate?
We present an empirical test of the ‘Ghiselin—Reiss small-male hypothesis’ for the evolution of sexual size dimorphism (SSD). In mating systems dominated by scramble competition, where male reproductive success is a function of encounter rate with females, small males may be favoured when food is limiting because they require lower absolute amounts...
Altitudinal life history variation in the dung flies Scathophaga stercoraria and Sepsis cynipsea
Field phenologies of high- (ca. 1500 m) and low- (ca. 500 m) altitude populations of the two most common European species of dung flies, Scathophaga stercoraria and Sepsis cynipsea, differ quite markedly due to differences in climate. To differentiate genetic adaptation due to natural selection and phenotypic plasticity, I compared standard life hi...
Effects of temperature on growth, development and diapause in the yellow dung fly - against all the rules?
The effects of rearing temperature (and photoperiod) on growth, development, body size, and diapause induction and termination in the yellow dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria, were investigated by allowing replicate families of larvae to develop in the field along a time sequence approaching the onset of winter. This was supplemented with extensive...
