Joseph R. Coelho, Charles W. Holliday, Jon M. Hastings, Elizabeth Maty, Meghan Swigart, Angela Mendell,
(1) Male western cicada killers (Sphecius grandis) had elevated, apparently regulated, thorax temperatures during territorial patrolling. (2) Abdomen temperature increased steeply with increasing ambient temperature, approaching thorax temperature ... what has been reported for eastern cicada killers (Sphecius speciosus), S. grandis males did not appear to use sophisticated behaviors ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2007 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Thermal Biology
Charles W. Holliday, Joseph R. Coelho,
... percentage of female Sphecius convallis (Patton 1879) and Sphecius grandis (Say 1824). Both keys fail to allow for common variations in the number of gastral segments with yellow markings, and one key has the two species reversed. Here, we present an improved key that correctly identifies both sexes of >4,400 specimens of New World Sphecius, which we examined.
Tópico(s): Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
2006 - Oxford University Press | Annals of the Entomological Society of America
Jon M. Hastings, Patrick J. Schultheis, Maggie Whitson, Charles W. Holliday, Joseph R. Coelho, Angela Mendell,
... and morphological evidence were noted. 1) Haplotypes of Sphecius grandis Say fall into two highly divergent clades, suggesting ...
Tópico(s): Insect behavior and control techniques
2008 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Reproduction
1989 - Springer Science+Business Media | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Tópico(s): Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
1989 - Kansas (Central States) Entomological Society | Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Reproduction
1986 - Kansas (Central States) Entomological Society | Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society
Tópico(s): Fossil Insects in Amber
1975 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Natural History