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| Author(s): |
Guillermo-Ferreira, Rhainer
[1, 2]
;
Neiss, Ulisses Gaspar
[3]
;
Hamada, Neusa
[4]
;
Bispo, Pitagoras C.
[2]
Total Authors: 4
|
| Affiliation: | [1] UFGD, Fac Ciencias Biol & Ambientais, Dourados, MS - Brazil
[2] Univ Estadual Paulista UNESP, Fac Ciencias & Letras Assis, Dept Ciencias Biol, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[3] Univ Fed Amazonas UFAM, Inst Nat & Cultura INC BC, Benjamin Constant, Amazonas - Brazil
[4] INPA, Coordenacao Biodiversidade CBio, Manaus, Amazonas - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 4
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ODONATOLOGY; v. 17, n. 4, p. 251-258, OCT 2 2014. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 4 |
| Abstract | |
Polythorid damselflies are Neotropical stream dwellers, whose behavior has rarely been recorded. Here we describe the territorial and courtship behavior of Chalcopteryx scintillans McLachlan, an Amazonian damselfly with shiny copper-colored hind wings. Territorial behavior consists of aerial contests, when males engage in threat displays and mutual pursuits in ascending and rocking flights. During courtship, males hold their coppery hind wings still while hovering with their forewings, showing the hind wings to females, which hover in front of the male in response. After copulation, the male exhibits the courtship flight again by hovering over the oviposition resource (i.e. fallen tree trunk) on the stream. The females oviposit on the trunk while the males guard them by perching near and hovering around them constantly. We also present behavioral notes on reproductive and oviposition behavior, and comments on the differentiation between C. scintillans and C. rutilans (Rambur). (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/00406-7 - Evolution of the interaction between morphological and behavioral characters in Odonata of the neotropical region |
| Grantee: | Rhainer Guillermo Nascimento Ferreira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/21196-8 - Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera (Insecta): reducing Linnean, Wallacean and Henningian deficits |
| Grantee: | Pitágoras da Conceição Bispo |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |