. Ecology, behavior, and adult anatomy of the Albida Group of the genus Epicauta (Coleoptera, Meloidae) . spuooeg Fig. 51. Time spent in courtship by three pairs of E. immaculata. Data were obtained during the first 15 minutes of a daily 30-minute period of exposure of pair members to each other from shortly after emergence of adults until death of the female. The top three graphs are records for the pairs separately; the bottom graph presents daily means. In computing means, records for a period in which copulation occurred and those for the following two periods were omitted. Days on which o


. Ecology, behavior, and adult anatomy of the Albida Group of the genus Epicauta (Coleoptera, Meloidae) . spuooeg Fig. 51. Time spent in courtship by three pairs of E. immaculata. Data were obtained during the first 15 minutes of a daily 30-minute period of exposure of pair members to each other from shortly after emergence of adults until death of the female. The top three graphs are records for the pairs separately; the bottom graph presents daily means. In computing means, records for a period in which copulation occurred and those for the following two periods were omitted. Days on which oviposition and copulation occurred are marked with the symbols 0 and M respectively.


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