Super-Protective Child-Rearing by Japanese Bess Beetles, Cylindrocaulus patalis: Adults Provide Their Larvae with Chewed and Predigested Wood

Super-Protective Child-Rearing by Japanese Bess Beetles, Cylindrocaulus patalis: Adults Provide Their Larvae with Chewed and Predigested Wood

Beetles of the family Passalidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) are termed subsocial. The insects inhabit rotten wood as family groups consisting of the parents and their offspring. The Japanese species Cylindrocaulus patalis has the lowest fecundity among passalids because siblicide occurs among the f...

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Main Authors: Tatsuya Mishima, Noriko Wada, Ryûtarô Iwata, Hirosi Anzai, Tadatsugu Hosoya, Kunio Araya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-04-01
Series:Insects
Subjects:
super-protective child-rearing
bess beetles
Cylindrocaulus patalis
rotten wood
glycosidase activity
glycanase activity
mycophagy
chewed and predigested wood by the parents
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/7/2/18

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