Mating behavior of the Japanese burnet moths.(6.4MB, 00:00:55)Shot Date: 1993/08/07 Shot Location: Motosu, Yamanashi prefecture, the central part of Japan | ||
 | species Zygaena niphona Key Words | |
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Mating behavior of the Japanese burnet moths.(6.4MB, 00:00:55)Shot Date: 1993/08/07 Shot Location: Motosu, Yamanashi prefecture, the central part of Japan | ||
| species Zygaena niphona Key Words | |
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Animalia >Arthropoda >Insecta >Lepidoptera >Zygaenidae >Zygaena >
Copulatory attempts by males were observed mainly in the afternoon. During the afternoon, females resting at the tip of the leaves, stems or flowers of grasses, and males flew just above the grass to search females. When a male found a female, he perched beside her, and courted her, fluttering his wings. Then he bents his abdomen backward, opening the hair-pencils and tries to grasp her abdomen with his valvae. Sometimes the female did not accept the male, bending her abdomen to avoid his valvae and walking or flying away. Copulation usually ended early the following morning.
Koshio, C. 2003
Mating behaviour and activity patterns of the Japanese burnet moth Zygaena niphona Butler, 1877 (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae, Zygaeninae). In "Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Zygaenidae" (K. A. Efetov, W. G. Tremewan & G. M. Tarmann eds.), Crimean State Medical University Press, Simferopol, pp. 85-98.
(Data No.momo050925zn02b)
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