著者

SETSUDA Kenichi

出版者

東京昆蟲學會

雑誌

昆蟲

巻号頁・発行日

vol.62, no.4, pp.803-809, 1994

被引用文献数

1

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A survey of Oxyporus japonicus SHARP (Staphylinidae, Oxyporinae) breeding on fruiting bodies of Lampteromyces japonicus (KAWAM.) SING. (Agaricales, Tricholomataceae) was carried out in October 1993 in Asyu, Kyoto, Japan. The female O. japonicus constructed the egg chamber within the stem of the young fruiting body and covered her eggs within egg chamber with the fungal frass after oviposition. The female O. japonicus then remained within her egg chamber after oviposition and repelled conspecific female adults and possibly also other predacious beetles before and during hatching of the eggs. Thus this species is regarded as subsocial.