✦ LIBER ✦
Egg deposition rates and duration of oviposition inPlatycnemis pennipes(Pallas) (Insects: Odonata)
✍ Scribed by Andreas Martens
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 613 KB
- Volume
- 230
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-5141
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✦ Synopsis
Platycnemispennipes deposits eggs into plant tissue at or just below the water surface. On a number of different plant species egg deposition rate was found to be similar, while oviposition duration varied. Eggs were not always to be found in the substrate after a female had probed the substrate with her ovipositor. Actual oviposition took place only during longer stays.