1965
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.1965.tb02336.x
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THE PREDATORY BEHAVIOUR AND LIFE HISTORY OF PISILUS TIPULIFORMIS FABRICIUS (HEMIPTERA: REDUVIIDAE)

Abstract: The predatory West African Reduviid Pisilus tipuliformis was reared and maintained in the laboratory. Observations on its mating behaviour, oviposition and nymphal development are described. Several successive stages in the response to insect prey could be distinguished; experiments on the occurrence or otherwise of these stages when various models were presented to the adults indicated moving visual and olfactory stimuli to be important in inducing predatory behaviour. Observations on intra‐specific conflicts… Show more

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“…In contrast to sensory manipulations of predators, Parker (1965Parker ( , 1969 manipulated the stimulus to evaluate the importance of vision and olfaction in prey location by reduviids. In these studies, he offered an artiÞcial prey item (paper square) to the predators and varied the color (matching/contrasting to background), movement (stationary/jiggling), and scent (clean paper/paper exposed to cockroaches).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In contrast to sensory manipulations of predators, Parker (1965Parker ( , 1969 manipulated the stimulus to evaluate the importance of vision and olfaction in prey location by reduviids. In these studies, he offered an artiÞcial prey item (paper square) to the predators and varied the color (matching/contrasting to background), movement (stationary/jiggling), and scent (clean paper/paper exposed to cockroaches).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Observations to this effect have also been made on other reduviids (Odhiambo 1958;Edwards 1962;Parker 1965Parker , 1969Parker , 1971Parker , 1972. Members of Ectrichodiinae are exclusive millipede feeders and the first record of their habit is provided by Green (1925) who reports the feeding of small Physorhynchus linnaei Stal on large Spirostreptus sp.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…Available information on their feeding behaviour appears meagre (Cachan 1952;Edwards 1962;Parker 1965Parker , 1969Parker , 1971Parker , 1972, in spite of this being the largest group among the heteropterous insects. An attempt has been made to present a detailed study of the prey records, feeding habits, and the predatory behaviour of some representative types of reduviids collected from Southern India.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Predators without vision failed to differentiate between the anterior and posterior ends of the prey and while probing often missed the larvae (A WAN et al., 1989). O DHIAMBO (1958), P ARKER (1965), E DWARDS (1966), W IGGLESWORTH (1972) and L IVINGSTONE and A MBROSE (1978) also emphasized the role of vision in predation of reduviids.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%