Catch fast and kill quickly: do tiger beetles use the same strategies when hunting different types of prey?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) are fast running predatory insects preying on different small insects and other terrestrial arthropods. Prey is located by sight and captured after short and fast pursuit interspersed with pause-and-look behaviour. At least some tiger beetle species can recognise the size and location of prey using memory, which probably allows them to achieve greater hunting success.

Material and methods

Two eurytopic tiger beetle species known to occur in different types of habitat were used in the study: Cicindela hybrida hybrida, a very common central European beetle found even in artificial habitats such as sandy roads or gravel pits, and Calomera littoralis nemoralis, a species widely distributed in southern European cou

SUBMITTER: Rewicz T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6252071 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature