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Sex Attractant of Male Scorpion Flies

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IT is well known that in mecopteran flies of the family Panorpidae courtship and mating behaviour fall into a distinctive pattern1. In the case of the Bittacidae, the recorded observations2–4, although suggestive, have been insufficient to reveal clear-cut feeding and mating patterns.

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BORNEMISSZA, G. Sex Attractant of Male Scorpion Flies. Nature 203, 786–787 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203786a0

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